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One way to hold it: the needle sits just above zero. Something is technically there, but only barely — so little that the sentence comes out negative. Notice that hardly is not the adverb of hard: it does not mean "with effort". A person who hardly works and a person who works hard are opposites.

可以想成指針只比零高出一點點：東西勉強算存在，但少到整句話聽起來等於否定。要特別留意，hardly 不是 hard …更多收起可以想成指針只比零高出一點點：東西勉強算存在，但少到整句話聽起來等於否定。要特別留意，hardly 不是 hard 的副詞，它跟「努力」無關——He hardly works（他幾乎不做事）和 He works hard（他很努力）意思剛好相反。

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才剛…就

把「幾乎沒有」用在時間上：兩件事之間幾乎沒有空隙，前一件才剛開始，後一件就到了。

only just, right after · r · B2

used to say that something has only just started, or that one thing happened and another thing followed straight away.

才剛…就；才剛開始

Also in this word

almost not · r · B1

almost not, or almost none — used to say there is only a very small amount of something, or that something is only just true.

幾乎不；幾乎沒有

certainly not · r · B2

used in front of a noun or adjective to say that something is not true or not reasonable, when you think the listener already agrees with you.

才不是；哪算是

原始詞典資料6 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。

hardlyadv/ˈhɑːdli/

  • 1

    Barely, only just, almost not.

    • They hardly ever watch television.
    • It's hardly possible he could lose the election.
  • 2

    Certainly not; not at all.

    • I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!
    • With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.
  • 3

    archaicWith difficulty.

    • And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].
    • While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.
  • 4

    datedmannerHarshly, severely; in a hard manner.

    • I was a fool when I married him; and I am so far an incurable fool on that subject, that, for the sake of what I once believed him to be, I wouldn’t have even this shadow of my idle fancy hardly dealt with.
    • "Mr. Cholmondeley, the young men out here are much too hardly worked to allow them time for paying impertinent compliments."
  • 5

    obsoletemannerFirmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

    • Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].
    • Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

hardlyintj/ˈhɑːdli/

  • 1

    Not really.

    • I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!

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。