1 ADV-BRD-NEG [ADVERB before verb] 刚刚；勉强；仅仅 You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case. 刚刚；勉强；仅仅
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Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital.
阿纳斯塔西娅几乎记不起来怎么去的医院。
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It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room.
当时气温达到了90度，空调也不能让房间凉快多少。
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His voice was barely audible.
他的声音几乎听不见。
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She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old.
她是个鬼马小精灵，看起来也就刚满10岁。
SYN only just, just, hardly, scarcely
2 ADV-BRD-NEG [ADVERB before verb] 刚刚…（就） If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second. 刚刚…（就）
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The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open.
这架波音767刚刚停住，它的舱门就弹开了。
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Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.
推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。
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