hardly
英 ['hɑːdlɪ]
美['hɑrdli]
	    - adv. 几乎不,简直不;刚刚
 
英英释意
- 1. by a small margin;
 - "they could barely hear the speaker"
 - "we hardly knew them"
 - "just missed being hit"
 - "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"
 - "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
 
- 2. almost not;
 - "he hardly ever goes fishing"
 - "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"
 - "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"