scarcely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 仅仅, 几乎不，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 10 Sons and Lovers 'Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Chris-tian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,' returned the gentleman, 'a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink.
-- They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.
-- It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.
-- Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits hen Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out Wof bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.
-- I passed his office window; and as it was not shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
-- It could scarcely be called a trade, in spite of his favourite description of himself as 'a honest tradesman.'
-- It is scarcely worth mentioning; but, is it yet?'
-- Her father answered, with a cheerful firmness of con-viction he could scarcely have assumed, 'Quite sure, my darling!More than that,' he added, as he tenderly kissed her: 'my future is far brighter, Lucie, seen through your marriage, than it could have been nay, than it ever was without it.'
-- Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, ei-ther.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through.
-- One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mis-tresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too strik-ing.
-- The bridge leading to Palace Square was not to be found; scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water, and here fell in with two men who very comfort-ably were rocking to and fro in a boat.
-- Ohl I am ill!I can scarcely bear myself any longer.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch gave a scarcely perceptible smile.
-- His father he scarcely remembered, and he had been educated in the Corps of Pages.
-- She had scarcely entered the ballroom and reached the throng of ladies, all tulle, ribbons, lace, and flowers, waiting to be asked to dance--Kitty was never one of that throng-- when she was asked for a waltz, and asked by the best partner, the first star in the hierarchy of the ballroom, a renowned director of dances, a married man, handsome and well-built, Yegorushka Korsunsky.
-- It's a productive association..." Konstantin scarcely heard him.
-- Levin scarcely remembered his mother.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction.
-- Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee; but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
-- The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds; the height of the trees deepened the darkness.
-- Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis stood erect, the Parsee bowed his head, and Passepartout was, no doubt, scarcely less stupefied.
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
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