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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come, Tom!I can hardly believe that.
-- That could hardly be, she knew, until an hour past midnight; but in the country silence, which did anything but calm the trouble of her thoughts, time lagged wearily.
-- She put her hands to her dress, as if she hardly knew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worst part of the matter was that, in what is called the transition rocks, it was hardly to be expected we should meet with water!
-- I can scarcely believe it possible; I can hardly believe it true.
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：
-- But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, arid the dried-up, elderly, superlatively cor-rect female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman...who waited at table, had been in the house for forty years.
-- he said, turning his head away, and looking sideways, downwards, with that strange im-mobility of an old race that is hardly here in our present day.
-- she exclaimed, with hardly breath to utter it.
-- 'Wrong!Good God, no!You're only too infinitely good to me...I can hardly bear it.'
-- 'He'll hardly know you've gone, after six months.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lighted the second at the ashes of the first, and smoked on, looking sideways at his companion, who, preoccupied with his own case, hardly looked at him.
-- One could hardly see the face, so still and scornful, set off by the arched dark eyebrows, and the folds of dark hair, without wondering what its expression would be if a change came over it.
-- Three or four hours passed; the flies fell into the traps by hundreds; and at length one little life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths.
-- 'You could hardly have been here since your boyhood without my knowledge.
-- It is hardly necessary to add that beyond all doubt he would have presented himself at Mr Casby's door, if there had been no Little Dorrit in existence; for we all know how we all deceive ourselves that is to say, how people in general, our profounder selves excepted, deceive themselves as to motives of action.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the excitement had hardly subsided when Hannah appeared, with 'Mrs.
-- It aches so, I can hardly stand, and I don't know how I'm ever going to get home,' she said, rock-ing to and fro in pain.
-- They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.
-- The unusual spectacle of her busy mother rocking com-fortably and reading early in the morning made Jo feel as if some unnatural phenomenon had occurred, for an eclipse, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption would hardly have seemed stranger.
-- with lips so parched they could hardly shape the word.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
-- So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
-- So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
-- But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
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