barely

美音：['berli] 英音：['beə(r)li]

简单释义：

adv.仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有；刚刚

网络勉强；几乎不能；赤裸裸地

完整释义：

adv.

1.几乎不,差点儿不,几乎还没有
2.仅,好容易才;几乎没有
3.只,仅仅,只限于;勉强
4.不,不再,不会,不堪
5.仅仅;公开
6.赤裸裸地,无遮蔽地
7.公然地,露骨地
8.依稀
9.淡淡地
10.模模糊糊地

例句：

Barely a year after she set up the FI Group, later called Xansa, she gave birth to her only child, Giles.
就在她创立Xansa公司的前身FI集团的一年后，Stephanie诞下了她的独子Giles。
Now I started seeing this fluff cloud, barely on March 18, but I had to wait a few days more to be sure.
现在我开始留意到这绒毛状的云隐约在3月18日的图片上，然而我不得不再等几天以更确定。
The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.
他刚接手时公司一团糟：过时的配方，一个几乎不能用的呼叫中心，九个饱受折磨的特许经销商。
And the jar of pills he had, he said, were the tiniest little pills he could find, so small you could barely see them.
这罐药，他告诉我，是他能找到的最小的安慰药片，小到你几乎看不清它们。
Unfortunately, Wall Street's history suggests that its track record in IT spending is barely better than its ability to stay out of trouble.
这是必须的，也只有这样才能拥有与众不同的优势。可惜从华尔街的历史来看，其IT支出情况比抗风险能力也强不了多少。
Behind them was the dead tiger, looking like a big sack made of coloured cloth, so heavy that even four men were barely able to carry it.
只见一对对手持缨枪的猎户开道，后头便是那打死的老虎，好像锦布袋一般，四个人还扛不动。
That might have recommended him for the task of overhauling an administrative machine that John Paul barely touched.
这可能已经决定他的任务是整顿的行政机器，这任务约翰保罗几乎没有触及。
This frees mainframe resources that may have otherwise been used for threads handling barely active client connections.
这样可以将一些大型机资源释放出来，否则这些资源就会被分配给那些处理很少活动的连接的线程。

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