hardly
美 [ˈhɑrdli] 
英 [ˈhɑː(r)dli]
- adv.几乎没有；几乎不；尤用于 can 或 could 之后；刚刚
- 网络简直不；才；仅仅
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 几乎不；几乎没有almost no; almost not; almost none |
| There's hardly any tea left. 没有剩什么茶了。 |
| Hardly anyone has bothered to reply. 几乎没人开口回答。 |
| She hardly ever calls me(= almost never) . 她几乎从未给我来过电话。 |
| We hardly know each other. 我们彼此还不大认识呢。 |
| Hardly a day goes by without my thinking of her(= I think of her almost every day) . 我几乎天天想着她。 |
2. | （尤用于 can 或 could 之后，主要动词之前，强调做某事很难）used especially after ‘can’ or ‘could’ and before the main verb, to emphasize that it is difficult to do sth |
| I can hardly keep my eyes open(= I'm almost falling asleep) . 我困得都快睁不开眼了。 |
| I could hardly believe it when I read the letter. 读到那封信时，我简直不敢相信。 |
3. | 刚刚；才used to say that sth has just begun, happened, etc. |
| We can't stop for coffee now, we've hardly started. 现在不能停下来喝咖啡，我们刚刚才开始工作呢。 |
| We had hardly sat down to supper when the phone rang. 我们刚坐下用晚餐，电话就响了。 |
| Hardly had she spoken than she regretted it bitterly. 话刚出口，她就后悔不迭。 |
4. | （表示不大可能、不合理或愚蠢）used to suggest that sth is unlikely or unreasonable or that sb is silly for saying or doing sth |
| He is hardly likely to admit he was wrong. 他不大可能承认自己错了。 |
| It's hardly surprising she was fired; she never did any work. 她被解雇了不足为怪，她从来没干过任何工作。 |
| It's hardly the time to discuss it now. 现在并不是讨论的时候。 |
| You can hardly expect her to do it for free. 你不可能指望她无偿地做这事。 |
| ‘Couldn't you have just said no?’ ‘Well, hardly(= of course not) , she's my wife's sister.’ “你不能就说声不吗？”“喔，不可能，她是我小姨子。” |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
The two of them, Krista with a patch of gauze taped over her eye and Smudge with hardly any sight at all, sat by the garden pond.
他们两个，克丽斯塔一只眼蒙着一块纱布，斯玛奇几乎看不见，一起坐在花园池塘边。
Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.
可是等到父母的车消失在公路的转角，我就立刻抛掉了德语，奔向古典文学的道路。
There was such a crush on the train that I could hardly breathe.
在火车上有如此的压碎以致我几乎不能呼吸。
But HGTV is hardly the only network trying to figure out how the recession and a political shift have changed America.
但是，HGTV并不是唯一的电视网表明经济衰退和政策的转变如何改变美国的。
L: To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.
坦白地说，如果它不是对我们的好关系，我们有刚刚对以这价格使你成为坚定的提议是乐意的。
It was an important investment for GM, but within the company it was hardly noticed.
对于通用汽车来说，这是一笔很重要的投资，但通用内部很少有人注意到。
she whispered, hardly audibly , peeping up at him from under her eyelids, smiling and almost crying with excitement.
她低声细语，几乎听不清楚，皱着眉头向他瞧着，脸上露出微笑，激动得几乎要哭出声来。
If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business.
因为如果是这样，那么美容用品业就会和其他企业一样受到贸易萧条的沉重打击。
That is, no doubt, a very remarkable fact, but you would hardly call it a law of nature.
毫无疑问，这是非常显著的事实，但你却不大会称之为自然法则。
He'd hardly looked at it; the car had been waiting to take him to the airport.
他几乎看也不看，因为车子等着接他去机场。
And the Londoner's post-match comments hardly screamed out 'class' or 'dignity'. "It was a triumph for Stoke's way of playing, " he said.
就连伦敦的赛后评论都少有的惊呼“等级”或者“尊严”。“这是斯托克城式的伟大胜利”他说。
He said, "The room is too small and can hardly accommodate all of our things. So we could only hang them on the walls. "
他不得不启齿了：“房间太小了，东西多了放不下，只能挂在墙上。”
Enjoying my winter holiday in a tropical area, I could hardly imagine it had been constantly snowing in my hometown.
在热带地区度寒假的时候，我很难想象我的家乡一直在下雪。
For example, if you hardly spend any time with one another, you might write, "I would like to spend one evening a week alone with you. "
譬如，假如你没有花时间陪对方，可以写：“我想每星期花一个晚上与你单独在一起。”
The old man, it is said, was an artist but people hardly know anything about this side of his life.
听说，这位老人曾是个艺术家，但是人们对他这方面的生存简直一窍不通。
Joseph Conrad said the seaman with an undue sense of security "becomes at once worth hardly half his salt" .
约瑟夫•康拉德（JosephConrad）表示，安全意识不当的海员，“其称职程度立刻就打了至少一半的折扣”。
Dark tones will make you just a part of a crowd hardly distinguishable from others, and the fresh color may be not good for you.
深色调会让你很难从人群中区分出来，鲜艳的颜色也不可能改观。
Indeed, its very messiness might provide some reassurance that the sovereign wealth funds hardly seem to have nefarious agendas.
实际上，这种混乱可能会让人安心：主权财富基金似乎没有不可告人的计划。
All this seems to start with the behavior of the fetus, which is hardly a model of quiet diplomacy when entering strange territory.
所有这些看起来都是从胎儿的行为开始的，而当它进人陌生之地时根本说不上是个静悄悄的外交家。
I hardly spoke with Wong Sheng when we were in ZMC. My memory of him was blurred.
当我们还在中医学院读书时，我几乎没和王胜说过话，对他的记忆已经变得很模糊。
She could hardly keep from feeling what he felt.
她几乎不能不和他心心相印。
Sometimes she could hardly remember how Byron looked, except in the few old snapshots she still had.
有时候她简直想不起拜伦是怎么一副长相，想得起来的也只是还在手头上的那几张旧照片的模样。
Grier gets such a bang out of life that he can hardly bear to end each day by going to sleep.
格里尔从生活中获得了很大的乐趣，几乎不能忍受以睡觉的方式结束一天的生活。
This was hardly the way to be running the tenth largest corporation in the country.
作为全国第10位的大公司，这么搞法怎么行呢！
Her words could hardly be construed as an apology.
她的话怎么想几乎都不像是道歉。
The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.
人群紧紧挤在一起使我们连气也喘不过来。
He could hardly suppose I should neglect them.
他绝不会设想我会置她们于不顾。
But you shouldn't deal so hardly with me.
可是你不该对我那么苛刻。
The battle was hardly contested.
这场仗打得很凶。
I could hardly take in what the old man said.
我几乎听不懂老人说了什么。
If he were, I said to myself, he could hardly be such a fool as to walk right into the lion's den.
要真是那样，我寻思，他不应该愚蠢到自投罗网。
I hardly ever see them making much changes in their way of living, though I don't doubt they've got to do it in bad times.
我也难得看见他们的生活方式有多大的改变，虽然我并不怀疑在营业萧条的时候，他们也不得不换个样子。
The newcomer hung back in the corner behind the door, so that we could hardly see him.
新生站在门后墙角，大家几乎看不见他。
Everything the good man said was full of affection, and I could hardly refrain from tears while he spoke.
这位善良的人所说的话，没有一句不富于真挚的友爱，他一边说，我一边止不住流泪。
"Well, " he said, hardly opening his lips, "I've taken that site of yours, after all. "
“哦，”他说，嘴唇差不多都张不开，“我终究买下你看中的那块地基了。”
But it is hardly probable that we occupy so important a place in the universe.
但我们不太可能位于宇宙中如此重要的位置上。
Though he was impatient to see her, he hardly knew what he should say to her.
他虽然急于见到她，心里却不知道如何启齿。
The nation's somewhat spectacular rise was hardly due to the genius of her rulers.
此民族的颇为惊人的兴起并不是由于它的统治者的天才。
"He had a badly bruised face" , said I, recalling what I hardly knew.
我说，“他脸上有老大一块伤”其实我自己也没把握当时是否看真切了。
As they walked briskly thither, they hardly spoke; though many thoughts were in their minds.
他们匆匆地走着，一路不大开口，虽然两个人心里有着许多想说的话。
She had hardly ever been in a state so nearly approaching high spirits in her life.
她有生以来还很少这样接近过欣喜如狂的程度。
Dr. Macphail hardly knew why he had made up his mind to appeal to the governor.
麦克费尔医生自己也弄不明白为什么决定去向总督说情。
The seriousness of these two diseases could hardly be exaggerated.
这两种病的严重性简直不可言喻。
Everybody was punctual, everybody in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.
人人按时到场，个个喜气洋洋，一滴眼泪都没有，甚至连一副发愁的面孔也看不到。
"You! " exclaimed the bishop in a manner that Mr. Slope could hardly have considered complimentary.
“你吗！”主教喊了一声，斯洛普先生简直不能认为他那种神态是赞赏的。
We hardly needed more from graph theory than the definitions of the concepts involved, the emphasis was on the use of probability theory.
我们所需要的图论知识，并不多于所涉及的概念的定义，而重点是在概率的应用上。
She spent hardly any of the money.
这钱她几乎一点儿都没花。
A chameleon is a small animal which changes its colour to suit its surroundings; in this way it avoid danger and is hardly noticed.
变色龙是一种变换颜色以适应其四周环境的小动物；它借此躲避危险，几乎不为人所注意。
He's got you in so deep now you can hardly hope to get out.
他现在已经使你陷入窘境，你已经不大有自拨的希望。
Smith was pinned against the ground by the boy twice his size, he could hardly breathe.
史密斯被一个比他高大一倍的男孩子压在地上，他几乎喘不过气来。
When you are the auditor, however, you can hardly complain that you were deceived, and this will have no real effect on the case.
但是既然你是审计师，你就不应当抱怨自己受骗，这自然也不会对本案有什么影响。
Weak and lethargic still, hardly able to talk, he appeared to take the luxurious treatment quite for granted.
他还衰弱，渴睡，几乎不能说话。他对这种优待似乎受之无愧。
The SEC, which seems to have been taken aback by the scale of the malfeasance, can hardly hold its head up high either.
美国证券交易委员会似乎也为此次弊案的规模所震惊，他们也无法抬起头。
Even if they aren't trying to sock it to ordinary investors, they are hardly in business to leave a lot of value the table.
即使他们不想给予普通投资迎头痛击，他们如果留下很多肉给别人吃，那他们的生意也很难维持下去。
Sometimes you could hardly hear her saying a word. She is so quite like a little cat that you may lose the awareness of her existence.
你有时半天都听不到她讲一句话，静默得像一只小猫，让你感觉不到她的存在。
He made the calls from behind his closed bedroom door, but the apartment was not large and the door was hardly soundproof.
他打电话时总把自己关在卧室里，房门紧闭。但公寓并不大，房门也基本上毫不隔音。
d love to help you out, but I can hardly manage to deal with my own business now.
我很想帮你，但我现在连自己的事情都处理不过来。
And, God be thanked, there hardly happens a duel in a year, which may not be imputed to one of those three motives.
不过感谢上帝，这一年来发生的决斗几乎没有一个不归咎于这三个原因中的一个。
This is not just a Japanese problem: elderly American managers hardly queue up to support foreigners taking over their employers.
这并不是日本才有的问题：早期的美国经理人也很少对收购他们的企业外国人列队欢迎的。
Of course we have no lack of educators highly actuated by ideals, but they hardly have the urge to break through the various restrictions.
本地当然有充满理想的教育工作者，在种种限制中却不见得有打破体制的冲动。
Cooperation, although it is hardly the only law of life, has long been a complementary principle of community and civic living.
合作虽然很难成为人生的唯一法则，但长期以来曾是社团生活和公民生活的补充原则。
Hardly had I answered the door when father came in. He was wet all over with a bouquet of flowers in his hands.
我刚打开门，爸爸就进来了，他全身湿透了，手里还拿着一束花。
With its recent history of turmoil and military coups, that country is hardly in a happy state at the moment.
最近遭受的混乱和军事行动，那时候泰国很难有一个乐观的状态。
"I'm so full I can hardly move, " smiling, Daddy sighed and said, "but I think I'll have one more piece of that pie. "
“我吃得这么饱，都快动不了了，”爸爸面带微笑叹息着说道：“但是我还想吃一块那样的馅饼。”
They did not seem pleased to see me, in fact they more or less ignored me, but I hardly noticed their rudeness.
她们见到我似乎并不高兴，实际上多少有点儿不理睬我，而我几乎没注意到她的失礼。
He had a wide grin and fresh face that looked as if it hardly needed shaving more than once a week.
他笑容可掬，精神焕发；看上去一星期刮一次脸也就够了。
Now the merchant upstairs was so rich that he hardly knew how much wealth he had.
现在，楼上的商人是如此富裕，他几乎自己拥有多少财富。
I was completely unprepared for the fact that the only thing discussed was for me a non-issue, hardly in need to be stated at all.
对于这个事实：正在讨论的唯一的事情，对我而言，根本就不是问题，根本就是无庸陈述，我完全没有心理准备。
THL was hardly alone in undertaking this sort of financial engineering, known as a dividend recapitalization.
进行这种金融工程，即所谓的股息资本重组的不只THL一家。
My unorthodox headed goal that won the match was the most satisfying of my career. Hardly a day goes by without somebody reminding me of it.
我那粒美妙的致胜球是我职业生涯中我最令人满意的一个球。时光一天天流逝，但是大家仍然不会忘记它。
I was so confused that I could hardly compose my thoughts.
我心烦意乱，难以镇定思绪。
You would hardly know him since his illness.
从他得病后，你简直难以认出他了。
The air was so cold we could hardly breathe.
空气非常寒冷，我们难以呼吸。
I thought that we should hardly clear the low hills which closed the harbour.
我以为我们难以飞越那些围绕着港口的低低的小山。
He is hardly old enough.
他稍微年轻了一点。
She had hardly started her life and didn't want to die.
她刚开始踏上生活的旅途，实在不想死啊。
They are so poor they can hardly exist.
他们如此贫穷，几乎不能生存。
