barely和hardly的区别

1。hardly adv。（副词） Barely; just。几乎没有；仅仅：刚刚 To almost no degree; almost not:几乎不：任何程度上几乎不；几乎没有：I could hardly hear the speaker。我几乎听不到演说者的声音 Probably or almost surely not:可能或几乎肯定不：“Easily was a man made an infidel,but hardly might he be converted to another faith”(T。E。Lawrence) “一个人可以轻易地变为不信宗教的人,但几乎不可能转而相信另外一种信仰”(T。E。劳伦斯) With severity; harshly。严厉地；粗鲁地 With great difficulty; painfully。非常困难地；痛苦地 2。barely [5bZEli] adv。几乎不能:仅仅,刚刚,By a very little; hardly:仅仅；几乎没有：could barely see the road in the fog。在雾中几乎不能看清路 In a scanty manner; sparsely:简陋地；很少：a barely furnished room。陈设简陋的房间 Hardly 和一个否定词在一起的用法在标准英语中应尽量避免,一些批评学家一直怀疑象hardly,rarely 和 scarcely 这样的副词在传统的双重否定的句中应被视为否定词,这样的词使句子象I couldn't hardly see him 和 I didn't get none 一样被弄糟了,他们争论说,毕竟句子Mary hardly laughed 的意思是玛丽的确笑了,而不是她没笑,所以不表示否定的建议。但是hardly 和 scarcely 和其他的否定表示一起在许多方面出现,举例说,他们和象any 和 at all 这样独特的和否定上下文联系的条目组合在一起,我们说I hardly saw him at all 或 I never saw him at all ,但并不是I occasionally saw him at all； 我们说I hardly had any time 或 I didn't have any time 但不是I had any time 等。象其它否定副词,hardly 在句子开头时引起主语和助动词的倒装,于是我们说Hardly had I arrived when she left,和 Never have I read such a book 或 At no time has he condemned the movement。等同样的句型。别的副词并不用这样的倒装：我们不能说Occasionally has he addressed this question 或 To a slight degree have they changed their position 。事实是象hardly 这样的副词语义上是否定的,他们限定修饰了与不发生有关的状态或事件。于是hardly 的意思大概是“几乎根本不”