读音

/ˈskɑːrpli/

释义

• 副词: 几乎不，几乎没有；勉强地。表示某事接近于没有发生或非常微小。

短语

• “scarcely able to” 表示几乎不能做某事。
• “scarcely visible” 意为几乎看不见。
• “scarcely noticeable” 意为几乎察觉不到。

例句

• “He was so tired that he could scarceley keep his eyes open.”
• “The snow had scarcely covered the ground.”
• “The sound was so faint that it was scarcely audible.”

同义词

• barely
• hardly
• almost not
• nearly not
• in the slightest (idiomatic)