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：
-- "As you please, my dear Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, though he could not help smiling; and no wonder, for these islands are scarcely 250 miles from Madeira, a trifling distance for such a quick sailer as the DUNCAN.
-- The rain fell in such torrents that the town was scarcely visible through it.
-- It would scarcely take thirty-six hours to go through them, and the moving panorama on both sides, seen in all the clearness and glory of the light of a southern sun, was well worth the trouble of looking at and admiring.
-- Magellan said that his head scarcely reached to their waist."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was found that scarcely any connection ex-isted between himself and Mrs. Epanchin, but the talk, and the opportunity of conversing about her family tree, grati-fied the latter exceedingly, and she rose from the table in great good humour.
-- And now he has come, he is drunk!He can scarcely stand.
-- As to General Ivolgin, he scarcely budged from Lebedeff's house, and seemed to have moved to Pavlofsk with him.
-- He had scarcely arrived in St. Petersburg, when a relation of his mother's (who was of bourgeois origin, of course), died at Moscow.
-- It is scarcely credible, even after all the tricks that have been played upon me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now there was scarcely a difficulty left, beyond the planning of details.
-- "I could scarcely believe I had done it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes were blood-shot at the edges, with scarcely a rim of white round the hazel pupils.
-- Af-terwards it occurred to me that probably I had seen him as I was lifted aboard; and yet that scarcely satisfied my suspi-cion of a previous acquaintance.
-- Then the staghounds woke, and began howling and baying; so that I dreamt fitfully, and scarcely slept until the approach of dawn.
-- At first I could scarcely believe what had happened.
-- 'You look,' said he, 'as though you had scarcely break-fasted.'
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：
-- At such moments, it seemed as if a vast range of country lay buried in eternal sleep; not the least sound arising from the forest, unless it was the distant and scarcely audible rippling of a water-course.
-- 'They are preparing for a shot,' said Heyward; 'and as we are in a line with them, it can scarcely fail.'
-- Insensibly the young man drew nigher to the swarthy lines of the Hurons, and scarcely breathed, so intense became his interest in the spectacle.
-- The effect of such an harangue, delivered in the nervous language and with the emphatic manner of a Huron orator, could scarcely be mistaken.
-- For near half an hour, not a syllable was uttered, or scarcely a look cast aside; a grave and meditative silence being the ordinary succession to ev-ery scene of violence and commotion among these beings, who were alike so impetuous and yet so self-restrained.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
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：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
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