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. 几乎不,简直不;几乎没有;决不; 刚……就……;仅仅,刚刚;勉强,刚;根本不可能;不可能,不会
用法辨析
- scarcely在句中一般放在行为动词之前,助动词、情态动词或系动词之后。
- scarcely在正式文体或文学语言中,常可放在句首,句子采用倒装语序。
- scarcely之后可接any, ever, at all等,表示“几乎不”“几乎从不”“几乎没有”; 也可接when表示“刚刚…就…”,这时主句用过去完成式, when引导的从句用一般过去式。
- scarcely也可用来修饰名词或代词。
adv. (副词)
词组短语
- scarcely ad 几乎不;仅仅;勉强;决不
- scarcely any 几乎没有
- SCARCELY NOT 几乎不;几乎没有
- recognize scarcely 几乎认不出
- possess scarcely 几乎不具有
短语
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.