時間上才剛過線
同一條「幾乎沒有餘裕」的線放到時間上：前一件事才剛完成，中間幾乎沒有空隙，下一件就發生了。
no sooner than · r · B2
used to say that one thing had only just happened when the next thing happened.
才剛…就…
核心畫面
Right on the line, with almost nothing to spare. Lean one way and it means you did make it, but only just; lean the other and it means there was so little that it hardly counted. Put the same line on a clock and it marks the moment one thing had only just finished when the next began.
可以想成：剛好壓在線上，幾乎沒有餘裕。往一邊看，是「有做到，但差一點就不行」；往另一邊看，是「少到幾乎等於沒有」。把…更多收起
可以想成：剛好壓在線上，幾乎沒有餘裕。往一邊看，是「有做到，但差一點就不行」；往另一邊看，是「少到幾乎等於沒有」。把同一條線放到時鐘上，它標的就是「前一件事才剛結束，下一件就來了」的那一刻。這個字帶著否定的味道，所以句子裡不會再加 not。From the picture
Also in this word
only just · r · B1
only just, because something is very hard to do.
勉強才…；好不容易才…
hardly at all · r · B1
almost not at all.
幾乎沒有
just, a small amount · r · B2
only — used before a number or an amount to show it is smaller than you would expect.
才不過；僅僅
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
barelyadv/ˈbɛə.li/
- 1
By a small margin.
- I barely completed my homework. However, I got a score of 5 for it.
- It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science barely to know the different operations of mind,
- 2
Almost not at all.
- The plane is so far away now I can barely see it.
- Yes, it is barely visible.
- 3
Recently, just now.
- I barely got to the store.
- 4
archaicMerely.
- Now that fire do's not alwayes barely separate the Elementary parts, but sometimes at least alter also the Ingredients of Bodies […]
- 5
rareOpenly, clearly, plainly.
- Firſt here is the Reſurrection of our Saviour barely and poſitively affirmed, whom God hath raiſed up.
- And the same feeling appears in the following reign; in 1380 the commons petitioned against the plurality of wars; from time to time we have seen them vigorously endeavouring to limit, direct, and audit the expenditure on the wars, and even attempting to draw distinctions between the national and royal interests in the maintenance of the fortresses of Gascony and Brittany; but when the question is put barely before them they avoid committing themselves.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。