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单词 hardly
释义 hard·ly
adverb
Etymology: Middle English hardely, hardly, from Old English heardlīce, adverb of heardlīc severe, bold, from heard hard + -līc -ly (adjective suffix)
1. : with force or energy : violently, vigorously
 < turquoise … earrings jangling down hardly on diminutive gold chains — Osbert Sitwell >
2.
 a. : in a severe or harsh manner : roughly, unfairly, unpleasantly, badly
  < things may go hardly with us … before the war is over — Nevil Shute >
 b. : with great or excessive grief or resentment
  < had not believed that he would take it so hardly >
3. : in a difficult manner : by hard work or struggle : with trouble : painfully
 < the right to play croquet had been a hardly won concession — Osbert Lancaster >
 < wondering why the lesson had to be learned so hardly — Kamala Markandaya >
 < means of existence wrung so hardly from the soil — Sir Winston Churchill >
4. : only just : not quite : not altogether : barely, scarcely
 < men who were hardly literate >
 < why, I hardly know him >
 < hardly knew what to say >
 < this is hardly the time to discuss such matters >
— sometimes used in nonstandard construction with a superfluous negative
 < horse thieves was so bad that a man couldn't hardly keep a … horse — J.F.Dobie >
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