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单词 barely
释义
barely
adverb
uk
/ˈbeə.li/us
/ˈber.li/
B2
by thesmallestamount:
仅；刚好；几乎没有
They have barely enough(= no more than what isneeded)topaytherentthismonth.他们本月差点就付不起房租。
She was barely(= only just)15 when shewonher firstchampionship.她首次获得冠军时刚刚15岁。
Synonyms
hardly(ONLY JUST)
scarceliteraryold-fashioned
scarcely(ONLY JUST)
More examples
  • The writing on thetombstonewas barelyvisible.
  • Hiswagesare barely enough tokeepbodyandsoultogether.
  • Afterpayingforourtravelcosts, we barelybrokeeven.
  • The council'sprovisionfor theelderlyis barelyadequate.
  • There was a barelyperceptiblemovementin hisrightarm.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Merely and barely
  • all
  • all ofsomethingidiom
  • at a pinchidiom
  • but
  • by a whiskeridiom
  • by inchesidiom
  • hardly
  • ill
  • inch
  • just
  • mere
  • merest
  • narrowly
  • nothing
  • nothing more thanidiom
  • only
  • pinch
  • scarce
  • scarcely
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(Definition ofbarelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

barely| American Dictionary

barely
adverb[not gradable]
us
/ˈbeər·li/
by thesmallestamount; only just:
There was barely enoughroomfor the two of them.
Thedarklineof themountainswas barelyvisibleagainst thenightsky.
(Definition ofbarelyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbarely

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He hadbarelyreached twenty when he was exiled and his formal education ended - except for whatever his father taught him.
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They then proceed with a particular dwelling type, the choice of which, unlike planning antecedents up until the late 1950s, isbarelyconsistent.
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Barelyable to talk, she phones the preschool to tell them she will soon pick up her child.
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The remainder of the chapter discusses the historical development, provides two case studies on even andbarely, and asks further questions.
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Besides a great mass of formalists -barelyinterested in actual languages - the ' armchair ' typologists produce slight generalizations based on superficially gathered information.
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The project of understanding the precise parameters of the role of theory hasbarelybegun.
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This left co-operative structures fragile, new social agents without resources, and the state's earlier commitment to emancipate the indigenous peasantrybarelybegun.
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Combining these abstractions yields a small but highly generic toolkit whose power we havebarelybegun to explore.
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The government was prepared to use force and persuasion to implement the reform in regions where state agencies hadbarelybeen present before.
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Some of the ambitions, fears and aspirations of the 1960s, although still within living memory, now seem so distant as to bebarelycomprehensible.
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This would amount to a rather ambitious comparative agenda that we havebarelybegun to explore.
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In the depressed demographic circumstances of the fifteenth century, custom maybarelyhave existed.
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But differences of opinion are welcome on a subject on which the dust hasbarelysettled.
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At this pressure, this is also the shape of the incident pulse, because gas breakdownbarelyoccurs.
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As so often in premodern comedy, these are stage personae inbarelyfictionalized roles, their 'character' limited to their servant function.
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