hardly的意思和读音

hardly

: [ˈhɑrdli] : [ˈhɑː(r)dli]

adv. can could

adv.+v.hardly understand,hardly recognize,hardly remember,hardly follow,hardly recognise

adv.barely,only just,scarcely,by the skin of your teeth,by a whisker

hardlyadv.

1.almost no; almost not; almost none

There's hardly any tea left.

Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.

She hardly ever calls me(= almost never) .

We hardly know each other.

Hardly a day goes by without my thinking of her(= I think of her almost every day) .

2. can could used especially after ‘can’ or ‘could’ and before the main verb, to emphasize that it is difficult to do sth

I can hardly keep my eyes open(= I'm almost falling asleep) .

I could hardly believe it when I read the letter.

3.used to say that sth has just begun, happened, etc.

We can't stop for coffee now, we've hardly started.

We had hardly sat down to supper when the phone rang.

Hardly had she spoken than she regretted it bitterly.

4.used to suggest that sth is unlikely or unreasonable or that sb is silly for saying or doing sth

He is hardly likely to admit he was wrong.

It's hardly surprising she was fired; she never did any work.

It's hardly the time to discuss it now.

You can hardly expect her to do it for free.

‘Couldn't you have just said no?’ ‘Well, hardly(= of course not) , she's my wife's sister.’“?”“。”

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adv.1ed for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all; used before words such asever,” “any,” “anyone,” oranythingto meanalmost never,” “almost none,” “almost no one,” etc.; used for saying that something is very little more or less than something2ed for saying that something had only just happened when something else happened3ed when you think it is obvious that something is not true, not possible, not surprising, etc.4ed for answeringno,” when you think someone has suggested something that is impossible1ed for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all; used before words such asever,” “any,” “anyone,” oranythingto meanalmost never,” “almost none,” “almost no one,” etc.; used for saying that something is very little more or less than something2ed for saying that something had only just happened when something else happened3ed when you think it is obvious that something is not true, not possible, not surprising, etc.4ed for answeringno,” when you think someone has suggested something that is impossible

1. skateboard v. hardly adv. ever adv. ...

2. share vt 使 hardly adv club n ...

3. skateboard hardly ever ...

4. hard hardly harm ...

5. ... hardworking adj. hardly ad. hard a.

6. thresh vt. (); hardly ad. , ticket n. ...

7. hat n. hardly ad. possible a. ...

8., thresh vt. (); hardly ad. , ticket n. ...

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1.The two of them, Krista with a patch of gauze taped over her eye and Smudge with hardly any sight at all, sat by the garden pond.

2.Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

3.There was such a crush on the train that I could hardly breathe.

4.But HGTV is hardly the only network trying to figure out how the recession and a political shift have changed America.,HGTV退

5.L: To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.使

6.It was an important investment for GM, but within the company it was hardly noticed.

7.she whispered, hardly audibly , peeping up at him from under her eyelids, smiling and almost crying with excitement.

8.If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business.

9.That is, no doubt, a very remarkable fact, but you would hardly call it a law of nature.

10.He'd hardly looked at it; the car had been waiting to take him to the airport.