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：
-- Whether the path was hardly distinguishable, whether it disappeared, or whether it lay beaten and plain before him, made no sensible differ-ence in his speed or certainty.
-- 'To what, as a white man who has no taint of Indian blood, I should be ashamed to own; to the judgment of the young Mohican, in matters which I should know better than he, but which I can now hardly believe to be true, though my own eyes tell me it is so.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
-- If they who believe in Strickland's greatness are right, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous.
-- Mrs. Jay, aware that impropriety is the soul of wit, made observations in tones hardly above a whisper that might well have tinged the snowy tablecloth with a rosy hue.
-- She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford.
-- Even now I can hardly believe it's true."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It naturally happened that game was more rare in those situations where there was hardly sufficient room to move; two or three large herbivorous animals were however killed during the last fortnight of April.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- Having dealt out these admonitions, the ladies fell to a more powerful assault than they had yet made upon the mixed tea, new bread, fresh butter, shrimps, and watercresses, and said that their vexation was so great to see her going on like that, that they could hardly bring themselves to eat a single morsel.
-- "I'm in such a state of mind that I hardly know what I write" blot "if you could see me at this minute shedding tears for my past misconduct" pepper-castor "my hand trembles when I think" blot again if that don't produce the effect, it's all over.'
-- Alick has been in such a state of impatience to come!You'd hardly believe that he was dressed before dinner-time and has been looking at the clock and teasing me ever since.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In conclusion, this lawyer made a thrust at the prosecuting attorney by remarking that, although the splendid reasonings of the prosecutor on heredity explain the scientific questions of heredity, they hardly hold good in the case of Bochkova, since her parentage was unknown.
-- "It is hardly proper for me to come here to put people out of temper," he thought, and, in an effort to be pleasant, he said that he would go with pleasure if the Princess were in a mood to receive him.
-- They gave me no rest, and I could hardly get rid of them.
-- Another one in my place would hardly exert himself as I do.
-- Nekhludoff said that he could hardly do anything, but promised to make an attempt when he reached St. Petersburg.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may hardly understand how it took me.
-- I hardly believe it myself..... And yet..."His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the withered white flowers upon the little table.
-- I consented, hardly comprehending then the full import of his words, and he nodded and went on down the corridor.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare!It'll be easy enough to get through ' She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there.
-- 'You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you!And don't keep your mouth so wide open!All the ashes will get into it there, now I think you're tidy enough!'
-- However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got back with it she found he had recovered, and he and the Queen were talking together in a frightened whisper so low, that Alice could hardly hear what they said.
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