barely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 赤裸裸地， 无遮蔽地； 仅仅， 勉强， 几乎没有，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed, before he sank into a heavy sleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It ap-peared, under the circumstances, rather agreeable to him to see the common people dispersed before his horses, and often barely escaping from being run down.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the last step he stumbled, but barely touching the ice with his hand, with a violent effort recovered himself, and skated off, laughing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside him stood a girl of nine years old, tall and thin, wearing a thin and ragged chemise with an ancient cashmere pelisse flung over her bare shoulders, long outgrown and barely reach-ing her knees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had barely time to get down again before the coach started,and I could hardly see the family for the handkerchiefs theywaved.
-- It was an old scar- I shouldrather call it, seam, for it was not discoloured, and had healedyears ago- which had once cut through her mouth, downwardtowards the chin, but was now barely visible across the table,except above and on her upper lip, the shape of which it hadaltered.
-- He accepted, from his sister's stock of ready money, a small sumon account of his legacy; barely enough, I should have thought, tokeep him for a month.
-- Icould barely show her my letter.
-- 'My love,' he observed, 'perhaps you will allowme to remark that it is barely possible that I do feel my position atthe present moment.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and gen-erally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
-- During his present short stay, Emma had barely seen him; but just enough to feel that the first meeting was over, and to give her the impression of his not being improved by the mixture of pique and pretension, now spread over his air.
-- You saw her with the Campbells, when she was the equal of every body she mixed with, but here she is with a poor old grandmother, who has barely enough to live on.
-- Every door was now closed, the passage plan given up, and the first scheme of dancing only in the room they were in resorted to again; and with such good-will on Frank Churchill's part, that the space which a quarter of an hour before had been deemed barely sufficient for five couple, was now endeavoured to be made out quite enough for ten.
-- She was nobody when he married her, barely the daughter of a gen-tleman; but ever since her being turned into a Churchill she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims: but in herself, I assure you, she is an upstart.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It came from the old man in the background, whose offensiveness and spiteful ways were barely atoned for by the occasional chuckle he contributed to general laughs.
-- They were yet barely in view of their mistress's house, when Oak fancied he saw the opening of a casement in one of the upper windows.
-- "I've been working hard to get our ricks covered, and was barely in time.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It barely cleared the tall back of thesofa and splintered with a little crash against the marble mantelpiece.
-- It was for the latter reason thathe was barely on speaking terms with his sister, Miss Pittypat From childhood, they had been exact opposites intemperament and they had been further estranged by his objections to the manner in which she had reared Charles "Making a damn sissy out of a soldier's son!"
-- Now Melanie had given a newmeaning to passages in the letters which Scarlett's eyes had barely seen.
-- She found Carey Ashburn on the bottom layer of wounded in an ox cart; barely alive from a bullet wound in hishead.
-- With her own dislike of this woman so strong she could barely concealit, how could Melly love her so?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechook may be a tenant of hers, and that he may sometimes--we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much of you--but sometimes--go there to pay his rent?
-- I had then barely time to get my great-coat, lock up the chambers, and make for the coach-office by the short by-ways.
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