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单词 hardly
释义
hardly
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adv

The adverb hardly means barely or scarcely at all. If you hardly ever visit your cousins in California, it means you almost never travel to see them.
If you hardly know your neighbor, you only know him a little bit, and if you hardly understand what your French teacher says, you're only catching every few words she speaks. Hardly can also be used to talk about time: "We can't leave yet — the party's hardly started!" Hardly originally had nearly the opposite meaning: "with great exertion or effort." The phrase "not hardly," or "a little," eventually lost the "not" and became the hardly we know today.
WORD FAMILY
hardly: hardlys+/hard: harden, harder, hardest, hardly, hardness, hards, semihard/harden: hardened, hardening, hardens/hardened: hardeneder, hardenedest, unhardened/hardening: hardenings/hardness: hardnesses
USAGE EXAMPLES
An uneven 109-98 victory over the lowly Suns in Staples Center would hardly classify as a “fix.”
Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017)
I hardly touched it, believing it to be tainted, stained.
Salon(Jan 02, 2017)
Consumers are supposed to report and pay sales tax on online purchases, but hardly anyone does.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
1adv almost not
he hardly ever goes fishing
he was hardly more than sixteen years old
Syn
scarcely
2adv only a very short time before
we hardly knew them
Syn
barely, just, scarce, scarcely
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