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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man scarcely seemed to hear the witticisms at his expense that followed on the words; he had relapsed into the dreamy state of mind that these superficial observers took for senile torpor, due to his lack of intelligence.
-- Eugene had been dazzled at first by the brilliant assembly, and had scarcely exchanged a few words with the Vicomtesse; he had been content to single out a goddess among this throng of Parisian divinities, one of those women who are sure to attract a young man's fancy.
-- Taillefer had scarcely heeded the talk, she was so absorbed by the thought of the new attempt that she was 莽卢卢22 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 about to make.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
-- The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.'
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
-- But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely aweek went by without its barbecue or ball.
-- Gerald made a habit of dominating the conversation at mealtimes, and usually Scarlett,occupied with her own thoughts, scarcely heard him; but tonight she could not shut out his voice, no matter how muchshe strained to listen for the sound of carriage wheels that would herald Ellen's return.
-- She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.
-- Even intheir extremity, they had not considered asking a widow of scarcely a year to appear at a social function.
-- In all her shelteredlife she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett andthe girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It scarcely sounded flattering, but I knew she meant well.
-- My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that I could scarcely stammer I had no objection.
-- Chapter XIXMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same.
-- I had scarcely had time to enjoy the coach and to think how like a straw-yard it was, and yet how like a rag-shop, and to wonder why the horses' nose-bags were kept inside, when I observed the coachman beginning to get down, as if we were going to stop presently.
-- It is scarcely worth mentioning, only it's as well to do as other people do.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he dressed himself as a poor man, and came secretly to the king's court, and was scarcely within the doors when the horse began to eat, and the bird to sing, and princess left off weeping.
-- But scarcely had she touched it, be-fore the fairy's prophecy was fulfilled; the spindle wounded her, and she fell down lifeless on the ground.
-- 'All-gone' was al-ready on the poor mouse's lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.
-- Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that the eye could scarcely follow it.
-- And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That this breed of struldbrugs was peculiar to their country, for there were no such peo-ple either in Balnibarbi or Japan, where he had the honour to be ambassador from his majesty, and found the natives in both those kingdoms very hard to believe that the fact was possible: and it appeared from my astonishment when 266 Gulliver's Travelshe first mentioned the matter to me, that I received it as a thing wholly new, and scarcely to be credited.
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