hardly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 几乎不， 简直不； 仅仅，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：
-- Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trem-bled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
-- As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though the demons, marketing the corpse itself.
-- She was expecting some one, and with anxious eager-ness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; 92 Sons and Loverstried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If your business necessitated your seeing 'the House,' you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.
-- 'Hardly any.
-- Something especially reckless in his de-meanour, not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner (which his momentary earnestness, when they were compared together, had strengthened), that many of the lookers-on, taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike.
-- 'I hardly seem yet,' returned Charles Darnay, 'to belong to this world again.'
-- But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, were I rich!Such was my wish, yea such When hardly three feet high, I longed for much.
-- He had hardly uttered these hasty words when the skirts and sleeves of his coat folded themselves together into wings; the clothes became feathers, and the galoshes claws.
-- He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking dil-igence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
-- The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague; the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms; and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.
-- This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had long known that Levin was in love with his sister-in-law, Kitty, gave a hardly perceptible smile, and his eyes sparkled merrily.
-- But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the world when she married the diplomat Lvov.
-- The friends hardly spoke all the way.
-- You'll hardly believe it, but till now I imagined that I was the only woman he had known.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They perceived that the whole train, rushing on at the rate of a hundred miles an hour, hardly bore upon the rails at all.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't think a fellow that can't get through an examination had hardly ought to be allowed to practice medicine.
-- Well, hardly a town.
-- I swear, it don't hardly pay to invest in mortgages any longer.
-- A dandy old auger, hardly rusty a bit, and I can take a box and make a test-tube rack .
-- One time I kind of figured on becoming an X-ray specialist--place in New York where you can take the whole course in eight weeks--and maybe settling in Butte or Sioux Falls, but I figured that even if I got to making eight- ten thousand a year, 'twouldn't hardly mean more than three thousand does here and so-- And a fellow has to consider his duty to his old patients."
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