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：
-- The travelers had barely time to catch hold of the steep bank.
-- Glenarvan and his companions had barely time to get out of the way; they fled to the enclosure of the oudoupa, not without having been sprinkled with water at 220 degrees.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general grunt-ed with irritation; Ptitsin and Totski barely restrained their smiles.
-- This went on for thirty years without a break; there was barely time to change the table-cloth; directly one person left, anoth-er took his place.
-- He is an innocent man, deceived by everyone!A defence-less victim, who deserves indulgence!Secondly, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, in whose hands I had placed the matter, had his first interview with me barely an hour ago.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To move to fresh apartments would have meant delay; altogether I had barely twenty pounds left in the world, for the most part in a bank and I could not afford that.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien.
-- The words were barely uttered when four or five of the younger warriors, stepping behind Heyward and the scout, passed thongs so dexterously and rapidly around their arms, as to hold them both in instant bondage.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you killed her out of fear, because you trembled still at the danger you had barely escaped."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had barely time to seem to be occupied in some needle-work, when he entered, accompanied by the child; having left Kit downstairs.
-- When should it be, but when I began to think how little I had saved, how long a time it took to save at all, how short a time I might have at my age to live, and how she would be left to the rough mercies of the world, with barely enough to keep her from the sorrows that wait on poverty; then it was that I began to think about it.'
-- The poor schoolmaster shook his head, and said that they barely filled the two forms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The merchant, who sat near Nekhludoff, barely kept awake, and from time to time swayed his body.
-- At first they appear to be interested, and then it is found that the pages of all the new books are barely half cut, and of the old ones there is no evidence of any thumb-marks at all.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at my watch, and saw that I could barely save that engagement.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is that the spot where Moses and his people passed is now so blocked up with sand that the camels can barely bathe their legs there.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The women made way for them, but barely sufficient, as if grudging to yield ground.
-- Again Hermione looked down at Ursula with that long scrutiny, as if she were following some train of thought of her own, and barely attending to the other's speech.
-- Birkin, barely conscious, and yet perfectly direct in his motion, went out of the house and straight across the park, to the open country, to the hills.
-- As if a little stunned, they both were motionless, barely conscious.
-- Whatever she had on, so long as she was barely tidy, she was right, beyond remark; such an aristocrat she was by instinct.
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