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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had scarcely been married three months, and his bride was Miss Helena Tuffnell, the daughter of William Tuffnell, the great traveler, one of the many victims of geographical science and of the passion for discovery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It grew so dark, that the figures on the dial-plate were scarcely discernible; but there the two old gentlemen continued to sit, in silence, with the watch between them.
-- cried Sikes, stopping short, as the girl, scarcely moving her head, looked suddenly round, and pointed for an instant to the Jew's face.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criti-cise.
-- Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: 'MY DEAREST LIZZY, 'I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
-- Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
-- I scarcely know anyone who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.'
-- He then sat down by her, and talked scarcely to anyone else.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After my broken and imperfect prayer was over, I drank the rum in which I had steeped the tobacco, which was so strong and rank of the tobacco that I could scarcely get it down; immediately upon this I went to bed.
-- But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarcely possible to keep from it; as, first, the goats, and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk.
-- It is scarcely possible to imagine the consternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved island (for so it appeared to me now to be) into the wide ocean, almost two leagues, and in the utmost despair of ever recovering it again.
-- Sometimes I went out in her to divert myself, but no more hazardous voyages would I go, scarcely ever above a stone's cast or two from the shore, I was so apprehensive of being hurried out of my knowledge again by the currents or winds, or any other accident.
-- However, I saw the poor fellow was most terribly scared, for nothing ran in his head but that they were come to look for him, and would cut him in pieces and eat him; and the poor fellow trembled so that I scarcely knew what to do with him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My love, it will be scarcely a separation.
-- Music seems scarcely to attract him, and though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth.
-- Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it.
-- They were scarcely ever without some friends staying with them in the house, and they kept more company of every kind than any other family in the neighbourhood.
-- She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could scarcely toss her head gracefully.
-- When she had gotten safely into the street, she could scarcely restrain the tears.
-- Her heart thumped so that she could scarcely see to go on.
-- Carrie at last could scarcely sit still.
-- It seems plain that schemers would choose more sequestered quarters to arrange their plans, that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save formalities, where the sharp- eared may hear, and it would scarcely be justified on the score of thirst, for the majority of those who frequent these more gorgeous places have no craving for liquor.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio, at that heartbreaking sight, threw himself at the feet of Fire Eater and, weeping bitterly, asked in a pitiful voice which could scarcely be heard: "Have pity, I beg of you, signore!"
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