barely
英 ['be?l?]
美['b?rli]
- adv. 僅僅，勉強；幾乎不；公開地；貧乏地
英英釋意
- 1. by a small margin;
- "they could barely hear the speaker"
- "we hardly knew them"
- "just missed being hit"
- "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"
- "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
- 2. in a sparse or scanty way;
- "a barely furnished room"
