barely 的定义
- only just; scarcely; no more than; almost not: He had barely enough money to pay for the car.
- without disguise or concealment; openly: They gave the facts to him barely.
- scantily; meagerly; sparsely.
- Archaic. merely.
barely 近义词
not quite
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- Then, with your fingers or tongue or teeth, you extract the tiny, firm seed, which barely tastes like anything.
- He also sat for a two-part interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, although the coronavirus barely came up.
- Notice that there’s barely a noticeable difference on September 2nd.
- In most other states which have been polled about as much as Florida — there’ve been 12 polls there since the start of the Democratic convention — they’ve seen far less of a change or barely any movement at all.
- There was not an inch of her body that was not in pain, and an incessant cough barely allowed her to breathe.
- Indeed, as an almost purely advisory firm, Lazard is (appropriately) barely affected by the Dodd-Frank reforms.
- We were barely into the appetizer when he asked a fairly basic question—where did my family live?
- Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.
- The star of the film was Glenn Ford, but I barely noticed him.
- But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.
- Then he cut away the knobs by which he climbed to it, until there was barely sufficient for his own tiny toes to rest on.
- The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
- Regular taxation, monopolies, mortgages, and loans barely sufficed to provide for the budget.
- She was barely five feet five, but she ranked with tall women, her height as unchallenged as the chiselling of her profile.
- Well might Sir Charles Hawkins hesitate to believe what the experience of sixty years has barely sufficed to make plain to us.