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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'However, it's true enough that my father died a month ago, and that here am I returning from Pskoff, a month after, with hardly a boot to my foot.
-- As for money, I have hardly a copeck about me at this moment.'
-- 'Oh no, oh no!said the prince; 'I couldn't, you know my illness I hardly ever saw a soul.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and mas-ter: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be.
-- Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans.'
-- They could hardly recognise their dead, but they washed the clotted gore from off them, shed tears over them, and lifted them upon their waggons.
-- Once he stayed to meet me and hardly did he escape my onset: now, however, since I am in no mood to fight him, I will to-morrow offer sacrifice to Jove and to all the gods; I will draw my ships into the wa-ter and then victual them duly; to-morrow morning, if you care to look, you will see my ships on the Hellespont, and my men rowing out to sea with might and main.
-- Ulysses smiled at him and answered, 'You had indeed set your heart upon a great reward, but the horses of the descendant of Aeacus are hardly to be kept in hand or driv-en by any other mortal man than Achilles himself, whose mother was an immortal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd hardly believe it.
-- They had hardly entered the cellar when Mrs. Hall found she had forgotten to bring down a bottle of sarsaparilla from their joint-room.
-- He had hardly gone ten strides before his shin was caught in some mysterious fashion, and he was no longer running, but flying with inconceivable rapidity through the air.
-- But Hall had hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground.
-- And I had hardly worked and thought about the matter six months before light came through one of the meshes suddenly blindingly!I found a general principle of pigments and refraction a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could hardly repress a shuddering recoil as he came, bending amiably, and placed the tray before me on the table.
-- Still, I could hardly tell the man that I thought him a liar.
-- He hardly met the finest type of mankind in that seafaring village of Spanish mongrels.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
-- Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a pan-ther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
-- For three months after that night Mowgli hardly ever left the village gate, he was so busy learning the ways and customs of men.
-- The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.
-- They hardly needed Akela's yell, but charged through the gate like a whirlwind, scattering the crowd right and left.
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：
-- Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glances of his organs, which seemed not to rest a single instant on any particular object, and which, at the same time, could be hardly said to move.
-- Hawkeye exclaimed, dropping the useless piece in bitter disappointment; 'the miscreant has struck the rapid; and had we powder, it could hardly send the lead swifter than he now goes!'
-- Hardly a breath was drawn by those he left behind, until they caught a glimpse of his head emerging for air, far down the current, when he again sank, and was seen no more.
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