剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - barely collapse

barely
[UK]/'beə.li/ [US]/'ber-/
adverb
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* by the smallest amount; almost not
仅；刚好；几乎没有

1. They have barely enough (= no more than what is needed) to pay the rent this month.
他们这个月差一点就付不起房租了。

2. She was barely (= only just) fifteen when she won her first championship.
她初次获得冠军时刚满15岁。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - barely collapse

barely ★★★☆☆
1.ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词刚刚；勉强；仅仅 You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case.

【搭配模式】：ADV before v

  • Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital...

    阿纳斯塔西娅几乎记不起来怎么去的医院。

  • It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room...

    当时气温达到了90度，空调也不能让房间凉快多少。

  • His voice was barely audible...

    他的声音几乎听不见。

  • She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old.

    她是个鬼马小精灵，看起来也就刚满10岁。

2.ADV-BRD-NEG 广义否定结构副词刚刚…（就） If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second.

【搭配模式】：ADV before v

  • The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open...

    这架波音767刚刚停住，它的舱门就弹开了。

  • Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.

    推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - barely collapse

barely
bare·ly / 5beEli; NAmE 5berli / adverb1. in a way that is just possible but only with difficulty
   仅仅；刚刚；勉强可能:
   The music was barely audible.
   音乐声勉强能听见。
   She was barely able to stand.
   她勉强能站立。
   We barely had time to catch the train.
   我们差点没赶上火车。
2. in a way that almost does not happen or exist
   几乎不；几乎没有:
   She barely acknowledged his presence.
   她只略微向他打了个招呼。
   There was barely any smell.
   几乎没有什么气味。
3. just; certainly not more than (a particular amount, age, time, etc.)
   刚好；不超过(某个数量、年龄、时间等):
   Barely 50% of the population voted.
   仅有 50% 的人口投票。
   He was barely 20 years old and already running his own company.
   他只有 20 岁,却已经营起自己的公司了。
   They arrived barely a minute later.
   过了不到一分钟他们就到了。
4. only a very short time before
   刚才；刚刚:
   I had barely started speaking when he interrupted me.
   我刚刚开始讲话,他便打断了我。
⇨ note at hardly

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - barely collapse

barely adv.
Barely is used with these adjectives: able, adequate, alive, audible, awake, aware, capable, clothed, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, conscious, credible, discernible, distinguishable, dry, feasible, furnished, habitable, imaginable, intelligible, legible, light, literate, noticeable, perceptible, profitable, recognizable, repressed, submerged, sufficient, tolerable, visible, worth
Barely is used with these verbs: acknowledge, affect, afford, avoid, breathe, brush, budge, cling, comprehend, conceal, cover, dare, dent, discern, eat, escape, exceed, feed, finish, fit, flinch, function, glance, hear, hesitate, hide, illuminate, imagine, know, light, listen, manage, mask, mention, merit, miss, notice, pause, penetrate, qualify, reach, recognize, refrain, register, remember, repress, resemble, restrain, see, skim, sleep, slow, spare, stir, summon, suppress, survive, sustain, tolerate, touch, understand, whisper

新牛津英语同义词词典 - barely collapse

barely

adverb
we barely got home in time
HARDLY , scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker.
-opposite(s): EASILY.

词源记忆 - barely collapse

barely

barely：赤裸裸地，无遮蔽地；仅仅，勉强，几乎没有

词根词缀： bare赤裸的 + -ly副词词尾