barely
🇺🇸
/ˈberli/
🇬🇧
/ˈbeəli/
adverb
B2
only just; with great difficulty
We barely made it to the meeting on time.
我們勉強準時趕到了會議。
C1
almost not; hardly at all
There was barely any food left after the party.
派對結束後幾乎沒剩下什麼食物。
C1
only; not more than
He is barely five years old.
他只有五歲。
R
only a moment before
I had barely finished when the phone rang.
我剛完成電話就響了。
translation
勉強地, 幾乎不, 僅僅, 剛剛