托福语法:hardly, scarecely和barely

2022-05-26 00:07:50

  hardly,scarcely和barely这三个词在意义上都接近于否定。

  hardly 主要与any,ever,at all或动词can连用:

  He has hadly any money.

  他几乎没有钱。(非常少)

  I hardly ever go out.

  我很少外出。(我极少外出。)

  It hadly rained at all last summer.

  去年夏天没怎么下雨。

  Her case is so heavy that she can hadly lift it.

  她的箱子太重了,她简直提不起来。

  也可以和其他动词连用:

  I hardly know him.

  我不太认识他。(我只是与他认识而已。)

  注意不要把副词hard与hardly搞混:

  He looked hard at it.

  他使劲地盯着它看。(他在盯着它。)

  He hardly looked at it.

  他几乎没看它。(他瞄了它一眼。)

  scarcely意为“几乎不”,它可以代替hardly。上述例句中也可用scarcely any/scarcely ever等。

  但scarcely主要意为“不到”、“不足”:

  There were scarcely twenty people there.

  那儿连20个人都没有。

  (关于hardly/scarcely之后的倒装语序,见第45节与第342节E。)

  barely意为“不超过”、“仅仅”:

  There were barely twenty people there.

  那儿不超过20个人。(刚刚20个)

  I can barely see it.

  我勉强看得见它。(我只能看见而已。)

  以上就是为大家整理的

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