barely
barely
英[ˈbeəli]美[ˈberli]
adv.勉强，几乎不，刚刚…（就）；
例句
They were living barely above the level of subsistence.他们的生活水平勉强在*低水平线以上。
In August the heat is barely tolerable.8月的炎热让人难以忍受。
The shore was barely visible through the fog.在雾里海岸不可见。
New Shoreham, now sadly decayed, has barely 100 inhabitants.如今已经衰落的新肖勒姆仅有100 名居民，很令人伤感。
The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.没有出口作物，岛上的居民几乎无法生存。
The investigation barely scratched the surface of the city’s drug problem.这次调查只是触及了该城市*品问题的表面。
His argument was barely intelligible.他的论点不易理解。
He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone.他等电话时跺脚，几乎掩盖不住焦急的心情。
He waited with barely concealed impatience.他等待着，几乎无法掩饰不耐烦的心情。
He can barely form a grammatical sentence.他几乎造不出合乎语法的句子。
英语六级真题
Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文Moreover, home prices barely dropped
出自-2013年6月阅读原文Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.
2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section CBarely anyone notices and no one says a thing.
2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BCompared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section ASome of these spectacular churches are no more than small buildings, barely 4 meters wide and 6 meters tall.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section CThe problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing, and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section CWhen we were children, we barely had any junk food available and we turned out just fine.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADV-BRD-NEG
刚刚；勉强；仅仅
You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.
例句
Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...阿纳斯塔西娅几乎记不起来怎么去的医院。It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...当时气温达到了90度，空调也不能让房间凉快多少。ADV-BRD-NEG
刚刚…（就）
If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.
例句
The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...这架波音767刚刚停住，它的舱门就弹开了。Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。英汉词典释义
adv.
仅仅, 只不过, 几乎不
We barely had time to catch the train.我们几乎来不及赶火车。I had barely come in when the telephone rang.我刚进来, 电话就响了。赤裸裸地; 光秃秃地, 空空地
The room is barely furnished.室内几乎没有陈设。刚好；不超过（某个数量、年龄、时间等）
刚才；刚刚
英英词典释义
Adverb
1. by a small margin;
"they could barely hear the speaker""we hardly knew them""just missed being hit""had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open""would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats2. in a sparse or scanty way;
"a barely furnished room"
