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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During this year, he had scarcely seen her.
-- In fact I make it a regular practice to set aside a period for scientific research, without a certain amount of which even the most ardent crusade for health methods would scarcely make much headway."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At these moments he would become conscious that his ideas were sometimes in a tangle and that he was very weak; for two days he had scarcely tasted food.
-- 'You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth anything.
-- He said a good deal more, for he seems a little conceited and likes to be listened to, but this is scarcely a vice.
-- With the cry of 'now,' the mare tugged with all her might, but far from galloping, could scarcely move forward; she struggled with her legs, gasping and shrinking from the blows of the three whips which were showered upon her like hail.
-- He scarcely looked at the pass-ers-by, tried to escape looking at their faces at all, and to be as little noticeable as possible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under theinfluence of this delusion, she dived into the coal-cellar at the mostuntimely hours, and scarcely ever opened the door of a darkcupboard without clapping it to again, in the belief that she had gothim.
-- We had scarcely done so, when Uriah Heep put in his red headand his lank hand at the door, and said'Here's Mr. Maldon begsthe favour of a word, sir.'
-- We walked very slowly home, Mr. Wickfield, Agnes, and I; Agnesand I admiring the moonlight, and Mr. Wickfield scarcely raisinghis eyes from the ground.
-- I could scarcely lay claim to the name: I was so disturbed by theconviction that the letter came from Agnes.
-- If I had been obliged to look at him with his splay foot on Mr.Wickfield's head, I think I could scarcely have hated him more.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied him-self at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card-table for him.
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- She should then have heard more: Mrs. Weston would speak to her, with a degree of unreserve which she would not haz-ard with Isabella; and, she really believed, would scarcely try to conceal any thing relative to the Churchills from her, excepting those views on the young man, of which her own imagination had already given her such instinctive knowl-edge.
-- He joined them immediately, and, with scarcely an invitation, seated himself between them.
-- To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's eyes had scarcely been able to follow her.
-- She scarcely knew whether most to be amused at the singularity of the meeting, or to be concerned at its awkwardness.
-- "People always say that and we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; 'tis the men who jilt us.
-- It was lowness and quiet accentuated: an emphasis of deep meanings, their form, at the same time, being scarcely expressed.
-- It is scarcely necessary to state that Gabriel could not avoid noting the farmer's bearing to-night towards their entertainer.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- Until the first year was nearly at an end, Goriot had dined out once or twice every week, but these occasions came less frequently, and at last he was scarcely absent from the dinner-table twice a month.
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