1·I hardly know you.
我几乎不了解你。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·He hardly needed to break sweat to reach the final.
他几乎不费劲儿就取得了决赛权。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·He hardly eats fruit or vegetables.
他几乎不吃水果和蔬菜。
4·I'm so full that I can hardly move.
我吃得太饱了，几乎不能动了。
5·She hardly plays cards.
她几乎不打牌。
1·I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place.
我的眼睛刚刚敢从我面前的书页上抬起来，用幅忧郁的景象立刻侵占了书本上的位置。
2·The personal genetics business is hardly four years old, but it has already made a splash.
个人基因检测刚刚兴起仅四年，但是已经引起了轰动。
3·Hardly a day passes without reports of collapsing revenues and workers being laid off.
刚刚过去的一天没有收入减少和职工被解雇的报道。
4·Hardly had I arrived home when it began to rain.
我刚刚到家，天就开始下起雨来了。
5·The hospital hovercar23) finally came, settling onto the school grounds so lightly that it hardly disturbed the fresh-mown grass.
医院的飞行车终于来了。它轻轻地落在学校的地面上，一点儿也没有打扰刚刚修剪过的草坪。
1·While in real life you hardly talk to strangers, here you get it as a social norm.
在现实生活中你几乎很少和陌生人说话，而这种事在这里成为一种社交规范。
2·I hardly see my housemates.
我几乎很少见到的室友。
3·Yet the new season shows her hardly going to class at all.
然而在新一季中她几乎很少去上课。
4·Japanese phone etiquette is in fact better than anywhere else in the world - hardly anyone speaks on their phones on trains, and teenagers wouldn't dare broadcast music out of one.
日本的使用手机的礼节实际上比世界上其他地方要更好，在日本，几乎很少看到人在火车上打的电话，年轻人也不敢出于个人原因而外放音乐。
5·Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work.
几乎很少有人能随心所欲地依据自己的天赋或对某种特定工作的兴趣去选择一种职业生涯。
1·You're paying so much money for something that hardly affects your grade—but if you didn't have it, it would affect your grade enough.
你花了这么多钱买的东西几乎不会影响你的分数——但如果你没有它，它会对你的分数产生相当的影响。
2·One important aspect of my love for this city, is that I hardly speak the language here.
我对这座城市的爱的另一个方面，就是我几乎不会说这儿的语言。
3·Many families have hardly decorated inside, even after years of living there.
即便住了些年头的许多家庭也几乎不会在屋里装修。
4·Icelanders are hardly sitting idle as their country is slammed by the global financial hurricane.
当自己的国家在全球金融风暴中飘摇时，冰岛人几乎不会坐以待毙。
5·Surely, some get slowly flung away in long tidal arms as seen in the wide-field image, but that is hardly apocalyptic.
当然，有的会慢慢地从长长的潮汐星臂中被甩出去，就像宽视场照片中所看到的那样，但也几乎不会发生灾难。