scarcely
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈskeəs.li]
- 美式音标 [ˈskers.li]
- 国际音标 ['skεəsli]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adv. 幾乎不,簡直不;幾乎沒有;決不; 剛……就……;僅僅,剛剛;勉強,剛;根本不可能;不可能,不會
用法辨析
- scarcely在句中一般放在行爲動詞之前,助動詞、情態動詞或系動詞之後。
- scarcely在正式文躰或文學語言中,常可放在句首,句子採用倒裝語序。
- scarcely之後可接any, ever, at all等,表示“幾乎不”“幾乎從不”“幾乎沒有”; 也可接when表示“剛剛…就…”,這時主句用過去完成式, when引導的從句用一般過去式。
- scarcely也可用來脩飾名詞或代詞。
adv. (副詞)
词组短语
- scarcely ad 幾乎不;僅僅;勉強;決不
- scarcely any 幾乎沒有
- SCARCELY NOT 幾乎不;幾乎沒有
- recognize scarcely 幾乎認不出
- possess scarcely 幾乎不具有
短語
英英字典
- (ONLY JUST) almost not
- (NOT) certainly not
- You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case.
- You can use scarcely to say that something is not true or is not the case, in a humorous or critical way.
- If you say scarcely had one thing happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.