| 单词 | scarcely |
| 释义 | scarcelyscarcelyscarcely /ˈskeəsli $ ˈsker-/ adverb1almost not or almost none at all SYN hardly: The city had scarcely changed since we were last there.havechangebe 自我们上次去过以后﹐那个城市几乎没什么变化。The country has scarcely any industry.have那个国家几乎没有工业。He scarcely ever (=almost never) leaves his house.leave他几乎足不出户。2definitely not: Owen is really angry, and you can scarcely blame him.be欧文十分生气﹐你可不能怪他。THESAURUS: scarcelyrarely used when something happens on only a few occasions: The people rarely ate meat.eatThis method is rarely used now.beusenot (very) often another way of saying rarely that is very common in everyday English: We don’t get snow very often here.I’m not often at home during the daytime.seldom rarely. Seldom sounds rather formal, and is used especially in written English: Mr Brown seldom spoke about himself.speakKaren had seldom seen him so angry.haveseehardly ever/scarcely ever almost never: We hardly ever speak to each other.My grandmother scarcely ever goes out of the house.govery occasionally very rarely – used when emphasizing that something only happens a few times over a long period: Very occasionally the temperature drops to below 30.drop |
| 随便看 |
BTSKY英语在线翻译词典收录了21184条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。