scarcely

ADV อย่าง ขาดแคลน  อย่าง ไม่ เพียงพอ  หายาก  ไม่ ค่อย พบ  บอบบาง  เกือบจะ ไม่  แทบจะ ไม่  barely scantily yang-kad-kan

scarcely

scarce ly |ˈske (ə )rslē ˈskɛ (ə )rsli | ▶adverb only just; almost not: her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying. • only a very short time before: she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open. • used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case: they could scarcely all be wrong.

scarcely

scarce ¦ly |ˈskɛːsli | ▶adverb only just; almost not: her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying. • only a very short time before: she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open. • used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case: they could scarcely all be wrong.

scarcely

scarcely adverb 1 she could scarcely hear what he was saying: hardly, barely, only just; almost not. 2 I scarcely ever see him: rarely, seldom, infrequently, not often, hardly ever, almost never, on rare occasions, every once in a while; informal once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS often. 3 this could scarcely be accidental: surely not, not, hardly, certainly not, definitely not, not at all, on no account, under no circumstances, by no means, in no way, noway, noways.

scarcely

scarcely adverb 1 she could scarcely hear what he was saying: hardly, barely, only just; almost not. 2 I scarcely ever see him: rarely, seldom, infrequently, not often, hardly ever, almost never, on rare occasions, every once in a while; informal once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS often. 3 this could scarcely be accidental: surely not, not, hardly, certainly not, definitely not, not at all, on no account, under no circumstances, by no means; N. Amer. noway.

scarcely

scarce ly /skéə r sli /→scarce 副詞 比較なし (!(1 )hardlyに比べ ｟ややかたく ｠. (2 )語法 成句については →hardly ) 1 〖準否定語 〗ほとんど …ない (!通例, 話し手 書き手の否定的な態度を暗示; →hardly コーパスの窓 ) ▸ I scarcely understood him .彼の言っていることはほとんどわからなかった ▸ It scarcely ever snows here .ここは雪が降ることはめったにない (!物事の頻度に関しては ～ everを用いる; →hardly ever ) ▸ For a while we could scarcely see anything .しばらくはほとんど何も見えなかった .2 とても [まさか ]…でない ▸ About 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was scarcely a congenial place for life .約45億年前地球は生命にとって決して快適な場所などではなかった .3 かろうじて , やっと ; わずかに ▸ My audience was scarcely twenty people .聴衆は20人そこそこだった ▸ Scarcely a minute later, she came back .わずか1分後に彼女は帰ってきた .