1·The music was barely audible.
音乐声勉强能听见。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·His words were barely audible.
他的话勉强听得见。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The flashlights barely penetrated the gloom.
手电筒勉强照见那幽暗处。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·The show barely covered its costs.
这场演出勉强够本。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·But after all the dollars and man-hours that went into launching the site, you still barely met your market goals.
但是所有的美元和人力投入到这个网站之后，你仍旧极为勉强达到市场目标。
1·He barely registered our presence.
他几乎没有注意到我们在场。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room.
气温是90度，空调几乎没有使房间凉快下来。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·During the day, your brain is a beehive of activity—during NREM sleep, it is barely humming.
在白天，你的大脑就像一个活跃的蜂窝——在非快速眼动睡眠期间，它就几乎没有嗡嗡声了。
4·Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.
几乎没有人注意到，也没有人说话。
5·In the trial Naomi said she barely spoke to Charles during the course of the dinner but in this photo at least they look extremely friendly.
法庭上，娜奥米说，那次晚宴的过程中，她几乎没有和查尔斯说过话，但至少这张照片看上去他们非常友好。
1·I barely know him.
我与他仅仅是点头之交。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
2·Indeed, the sort of usage that is in decline is the sort that can barely be called usage at all.
使用的种类确实在减少，而使用种类仅仅是可以被称之为使用的种类。
3·Software systems today barely take any advantage of the computer network.
今天的软件系统仅仅是利用计算机网络的任意优势。
4·Scoffing my sandwich in front of my computer while I prepared for the next meeting, I often barely registered what I was taking into my body.
为下次会议做准备的时候，我常常在电脑前狼吞虎咽地吃三明治，仅仅是为了塞进身体里。
5·He sees with one eye closed and with one eye opened the futility of much that goes on around him and of his own endeavors, but barely enough sense of reality to determine to go through with it.
他把一只眼睁着，一只眼闭着，看透了他四周所发生的事物和他自己的徒劳，而不过仅仅保留着充分的现实感去走完人生应走的道路。
1·In fact, he barely remembered the trip at all.
事实上，他几乎不记得那次旅行了。
2·In fact, he barely remembered the trip at all; his father actually wrote the letter.
事实上，他几乎不记得那次旅行了；是他的父亲写了那封瓶中信。
3·Humans will barely be involved-all construction will be taken care of by robots with oversight from astronauts.
人类几乎不需插手——所有的建设将由机器人在宇航员的监督下进行。
4·I was stunned by his words, and shocked that he would share such desperate thoughts with someone he barely knew.
我被他的话震惊了，我惊讶的是他会与一个几乎不认识的人分享这么绝望的想法。
5·All 200 or so species of primates have dark eyes and a barely visible sclera.
所有200种左右的灵长类动物都有黑色的眼睛和几乎不可见的巩膜。
1·The ruined economy is barely breathing.
遭受严重损害的经济几乎不能生存。
2·On the other hand, when I use my newer computer I barely aware of its existence.
另一方面呢，当我用我较新的电脑时，我几乎不能意识它的存在。
3·The hope is that they will barely notice the difference in take-home pay but that a higher contribution rate (perhaps 10-15% in total) will in due course allow them to earn a decent pension.
人们希望工人们几乎不能发现到手收入的差别，而是发现这个更高贡献率(总共大约有10 - 15%)能及时的让他们得到一份体面的退休金。
4·Moreover, this is a preliminary estimate and past revisions have sometimes been quite large; barely perceptible growth of 0.1% in late 2009 was subsequently pushed up to 0.5%.
此外，这只是初步估计，有前车之鉴表明初步估计与事实有时相差甚大。2009年末几乎不能感觉到的0.1%增长率最终被推升至0.5%。
5·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。
1·Usually I go in the early evening, especially in the summer and fall, when the air in Washington is warm and still and the leaves on the trees barely rustle.
通常，我在傍晚进去，特别是在夏天和秋天，那时华府的空气温暖，而且寂静，树上的树叶几乎不会发出瑟瑟声。
2·Despite the recent gains, average house prices in most countries are barely higher than a year ago.
尽管最近反弹，大多数国家的平均房屋价格几乎不会超过去年。
3·They will be of energy and lightness so that you barely realise you have one, and because you are in the higher vibrations you will feel the perfection that they bring you.
它们将是能量性质的并且轻盈，所以你们几乎不会意识到你们拥有一个身体，当你们在更高的振动中，你们会感觉到它们带给你们的完美。
4·It's an awesome machine – but was it a good idea to put it in the hands of someone who has barely learnt to drive?
这辆车确实酷毙了，但如果是把它交到一个几乎不会开车的人手中，这还会是个好主意吗？
5·He is now three and half and barely talks.
他现在是三岁半，几乎不会说话。