1 ADV-BRD-NEG [ADVERB before verb] 刚刚;才;勉强 You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case. 刚刚;才;勉强 [emphasis]
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He could scarcely breathe.
他几乎喘不过气来。
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I scarcely knew him.
我几乎不认识他。
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She seemed scarcely aware of him.
她看上去几乎没有注意到他。
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He was scarcely more than a boy.
他简直就是个孩子。
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Scarcely a week goes by without the news providing fresh examples of police racism.
几乎每周都有关于警方种族歧视事件的新闻报道。
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She was scarcely 18 when she made her debut.
首次出镜时，她刚满 18 岁。
SYN hardly, barely, only just, scarce [archaic]
2 ADV-BRD-NEG [ADVERB before verb] 几乎不;简直不 You can use scarcely to say that something is not true or is not the case, in a humorous or critical way. 几乎不;简直不
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It can scarcely be coincidence.
它不太可能是巧合。
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Yesterday, however, his views seemed scarcely relevant.
然而，昨天他的观点似乎毫无关联。
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It was scarcely in their interest to let too many people know.
他们并不希望太多人知晓此事。
SYN by no means, hardly, not at all, definitely not
3 ADV-BRD-NEG [ADVERB before verb] 刚…(就…) If you say scarcely had one thing happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second. 刚…(就…)
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