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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About two o'clock, Thalcave flung his last armful of combustibles into the fire, and barely enough powder remained to load a gun five times.
-- If we go twelve miles a day it will barely take us a month, just long enough to put the vessel in trim.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 301THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN here was once a merchant who had only one child, a son, Tthat was very young, and barely able to run alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a woman!A disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor, while the other was so purposeless in trying to p. 53push away her tangled hair from her face, that it only blinded her the more with the dirt upon it.
-- Stephen glanced at Louisa again, but her eyes were raised to his no more; therefore, with a sigh, and saying, barely above his breath, 'Heaven help us aw in this world!'
-- It was barely daybreak, when, with a parting look round his room, mournfully wondering whether he should ever see it again, he went out.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sir Geoffrey barely mentioned it: he spoke very little.
-- 'Well, hear how he goes on: ''It is thus slowly passing, with a slowness inconceivable in our measures of time, to new creative conditions, amid which the physical world, as we at present know it, will he represented by a ripple barely to be distinguished from nonentity.'''
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves.
-- This gentleman looked barely thirty.
-- 'And I told you, Mrs Merdle,' said Fanny, 'that if you spoke to me of the superiority of your son's standing in Society, it was barely possible that you rather deceived yourself in your suppositions about my origin; and that my father's standing, even in the Society in which he now moved (what that was, was best known to myself), was eminently superior, and was acknowledged by every one.'
-- Two months had barely gone by in all, when Bleeding Heart Yard had become so familiar with short-commons again, that the treat was forgotten there; when nothing seemed new in the partnership but the paint of the inscription on the door-posts, DOYCE AND CLENNAM; when it appeared even to Clennam himself, that he had had the affairs of the firm in his mind for years.
-- Something must be done with Maggy too, who at present is ha barely respectable, barely respectable.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.
-- But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with a velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, then, the thought darted across his mind that it was barely eleven o'clock; and that many people were still in the streets: of whom surely some might be found to give credence to his tale.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had not long been together before Mr. Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming to wait on her; and she had barely time to express her satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when Bingley's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His caution was so seasonable, and his advice so good, that I could not but be very well pleased with his propos-al, as well as I was satisfied with his fidelity; so we fell to digging, all four of us, as well as the wooden tools we were furnished with permitted; and in about a month's time, by the end of which it was seed-time, we had got as much land cured and trimmed up as we sowed two-and- twenty bush-els of barley on, and sixteen jars of rice, which was, in short, all the seed we had to spare: indeed, we left ourselves barely sufficient, for our own food for the six months that we had to expect our crop; that is to say reckoning from the time we set our seed aside for sowing; for it is not to be supposed it is six months in the ground in that country.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Barely comes down to the office now."
-- Bartenders and assistants might come and go, singly or in groups, but, so long as he was present, the host of old-time customers would barely notice the change.
-- They had barely pulled the train off the ferry-boat when he settled back with a sigh.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Di- rectly I could just barely hear a 'me-yow!me- yow!'
-- When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough!I could just barely see her.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame Fox and a blind Cat, walking together like two good friends.
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