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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They hardly know how ill you have been and are uneasy at your long silence.'
-- I could hardly sustain the 80 Frankensteinmultitude of feelings that crowded into my mind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, only last week, when they were riding home at twilight from Fairhill, he had said: "Scarlett, I havesomething so important to tell you that I hardly know how to say it."
-- His two oldest brothers, Jamesand Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night onmysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety.
-- Gerald knew that despite the genuine liking of the County men with whom he hunted, drank and talked politicsthere was hardly one whose daughter he could marry.
-- Why the loveliest of the Robillard daughtersshould marry a loud-voiced, red-faced little man who came hardly up to her ears remained a mystery to all.
-- Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand,stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being sounceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He had a badly bruised face," said I, recalling what I hardly knew I knew.
-- I never was so much surprised in all my life,--couldn't credit my own ed,--to tell you the truth, hardly believed it were my own ed.
-- Mr. Pumblechook wore corduroys, and so did his shopman; and somehow, there was a general air and flavor about the corduroys, so much in the nature of seeds, and a general air and flavor about the seeds, so much in the nature of corduroys, that I hardly knew which was which.
-- I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
-- Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Hans aloud, 'what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.'
-- 'I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,' said the soldier; 'but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.'
-- and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way, and such dirty walking they could not get on at all: he told them that he and his friend, the pin, had been at a public-house a few miles off, and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was; he begged therefore that the travellers would be so kind as to give them a lift in their carriage.
-- The words were hardly out of her mouth when the god-less crew returned, dragging another young girl along with them.
-- 154 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON here was once a very old man, whose eyes had become Tdim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- In the smaller pocket on the right side, were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to be silver, were so large and heavy, that my comrade and I could hardly lift them.
-- But the danger is much greater, when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
-- Once I was strongly bent upon resistance, for, while I had liberty the whole strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and I might easily with stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project with horror, by remembering the oath I had made to the emperor, the favours I received from him, and the high title of nardac he conferred upon me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- Somehow or other, he had become possessed by an idea that there was something in this girl which could hardly be set forth in a tabular form.
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