hardly

（用于修正作出的陈述）几乎不，几乎没有

例句：

I hardly know you...

我不太认识你。

Nick, on the sofa, hardly slept...

尼克在沙发上几乎没睡。

He was given hardly 24 hours to pack his bags...

只给了他不到24小时的时间来打点行装。

几乎不;几乎没有

例句：

We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish...

我们每晚吃炸薯条，但几乎从不吃鱼。

Most of the others were so young they had hardly any experience...

其他人大多都很年轻，几乎没什么经验。

Hardly anyone slept that night.

那天晚上几乎没人睡觉。

（用在否定句中是某事经常发生）几乎不

例句：

Hardly a day goes by without a visit from someone.

几乎每天都有人来。

（用于can之后，表示强调）很难

例句：

I can hardly believe it's been over eight years since you used to go camping at Cedar Creek...

我几乎无法相信现在距离你过去常常去松溪露营的日子已经有8年多了。

My garden was covered with so many butterflies that I could hardly see the flowers.

我的花园里飞舞着很多蝴蝶，我几乎看不见花了。

（表示两件事情紧接着发生）刚刚，才

例句：

He had hardly collected the papers on his desk when the door burst open...

他刚收起桌上的文件，门就猛地开了。

Hardly had he returned to London when an anonymous well-wisher called to say he was about to be raided by Customs & Excise.

他刚回到伦敦，就有一个不愿透露姓名的好心人打来电话说，他即将面临海关的突击检查。

（表示希望听者或读者赞同自己）并不

例句：

We have not seen the letter, so we can hardly comment on it...

我们还没有看到这封信，所以无从发表意见。

It's hardly surprising his ideas didn't catch on...

他的想法没有被广泛接受，这并不足为奇。

The growth rate for 1980-89 was 2.2%. Hardly the stuff of economic miracles.

1980至1989年间的经济增长率是2.2%，算不上什么经济奇迹。

（尤用于对不赞同的说法表示惊奇）不可能

例句：

“They all thought you were marvellous” —“Well, hardly.”...

“他们都认为你很棒！”“哦，不可能吧！”

'We could almost have seen it,' — 'Hardly, darling — in the dark and from a distance of a good hundred feet?'

“我们几乎都看到它了。”“不会吧，亲爱的——天那么黑，离得又至少有100英尺呢！”

1. Don't be a cry baby.That tiny scratch can hardly hurt at all.

不要一碰就哭，那么一点伤根本就不怎么痛。

2. We had hardly started before[when] it began to rain.

我们刚出发，就开始下雨。

3. Tina is as quiet as a mouse—you hardly know she's there.

蒂娜很文静——你几乎不知道她在那儿。

4. Torn between anger and self-reproach, he could hardly fall asleep.

他又是气愤，又埋怨自己，简直没法睡着。

5. I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing.

我很难想象你会做出这种事情。