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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could hardly believe that he was not mistaken.
-- The girl seemed hardly to know what she was doing; she crossed one leg over the other, lifting it inde-corously, and showed every sign of being unconscious that she was in the street.
-- It was remarkable that Raskol-nikov had hardly any friends at the university; he kept aloof from everyone, went to see no one, and did not welcome anyone who came to see him, and indeed everyone soon gave him up.
-- He concentrated all his energies on thinking of every-thing and forgetting nothing; and his heart kept beating and thumping so that he could hardly breathe.
-- In the second room some clerks sat writing, dressed hardly better than he was, and rather a queer-look-ing set.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 42We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that wethought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back intothe water- I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to bequite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us fordoing so, or the reverse- and then made our way home to Mr.Peggotty's dwelling.
-- I could hardly find the door, through the tears that stood inmy eyes.
-- I saw him wink, solemnly, at his sister, as he rose and said, takingup the cane- 'Why, Jane, we can hardly expect Clara to bear, withperfect firmness, the worry and torment that David has occasionedher to-day.
-- I don't know what the tunes were- if there were suchthings in the performance at all, which I doubt- but the influence ofthe strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrowsuntil I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away myappetite; and lastly, to make me so sleepy that I couldn't keep myeyes open.
-- It seemed to me a bold thing even to take notice thatthe passage looked comfortable, as I went on my way, trembling toMr. Creakle's presence; which so abashed me, when I was usheredinto it, that I hardly saw Mrs. Creakle or Miss Creakle (who wereboth there, in the parlour), or anything but Mr. Creakle, a stoutgentleman with a bunch of watch-chain and seals, in an arm-chairwith a tumbler and bottle beside him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.
-- 'There is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that,' said Mr. Knightley, feelingly; and for a moment 44 Emmaor two he had done.
-- Isabella does not seem more my sister; has never excited a greater interest; perhaps hardly so great.
-- I can hardly imagine the young man whom I saw talking with you the other day could express himself so well, if left quite to his own powers, and yet it is not the style of a woman; no, certainly, it is too strong and concise; not diffuse enough for a woman.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.
-- "Yes, but "She contracted a yawn to an inoffensive smallness, so that it was hardly ill-mannered at all.
-- "Mr. Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.
-- "Why, ye've hardly had strength of eye enough to look in our young mis'ess's face, so I hear, Joseph?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was hardly expected that Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
-- Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every ar-tery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
-- I could hardly be-lieve that so great a good fortune could have befallen me, but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.
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