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·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·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·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。