barely adv. 1.僅,好容易才;幾乎沒有。 2.赤裸裸地,無遮蔽地。 3.公然地,露骨地。 He barely escaped. 他好容易才逃了出來。 There was barely enough for all. 就全體(人數)來說算是勉強夠了。 He is barely of age. 他剛成年。
enough adj. 充足的,足夠的。 enough eggs, eggs enough 雞蛋十分充足〔后者語氣較弱〕。 enough noise to wake the dead 吵得死人都不安。 enough and to spare 綽綽有余。 more than enough 太多。 n. 充足,滿足,足夠。 have enough to eat 有足夠的東西吃。 E- of that! 夠了,別說了! E- of this folly! 不要再干這種傻事了! Cry ‘enough'! 快認輸吧! E- is as good as a feast. 【諺】飽食便是珍饈! 知足常樂。 have enough to do 很吃力 (I had enough to do to catch the tram. 我好容易才趕上電車)。 have had quite [about] enough of 感到厭煩。 adv. 〔用于被修飾語之后〕十分,充分,足,夠。 I am warm enough. 我夠暖和的。 He was fool (=foolish) enough to agree. 他同意了,真夠傻的。 She was clever enough to take the management of her own house. 她很能干,一定會管家。 The meat is roasted just enough. 這肉烤得恰到好處。 Be good [kind] enough to reply early. 請早日賜覆。 be old enough to 已經是可以…的年齡了。 can not ... enough 無論怎樣…都不夠 (I cannot thank you enough. 感謝不盡)。 curiously [oddly, strangely] enough 〔用作插入語〕說也奇怪,最奇怪的是。 sure enough 確實,果然。 well enough 1. 還不錯,還可以。 2. 相當;很,極。 int. 夠了!別再說了!
We had barely enough to live on in those grim depression years . 在經濟蕭條的那些嚴酷歲月里,我們的收入只勉強夠維持生活。
Their wages are barely enough to keep the wolf from the door 他們的工資勉強夠維持生活的
She earns barely enough to find herself in the necessaries of life 她掙得錢很少,還不足以維持自己的生活。
After repaying her debt in stools , she was left with 2 cents a day , barely enough to feed herself 在償還凳子的債務后,她每天只剩兩美分,幾乎喂不飽自己。
A sis family was terribly poor . with a hovel for a home and a few scrawny animals to depend on , there was barely enough to keep body and soul together 幾年前她還是掛著名的貧困戶,沒有個像樣的房子,少得可憐的幾頭牲畜都不夠一家人的生計。
Manorama used to own more than 8 acres of farm land , but is now left with less than 1 acre and a small paddy ( rice ) crop - barely enough to feed her family through the year 馬洛馬曾有8英畝多的農地,不過現在剩不到1英畝,和一片小小稻田,根本不夠一家糊口。
They were first constructed in the yuan dynasty . the plots snake from the foot of the hill right to the top : the biggest measures less than one acre , and the smaller ones are barely enough to accommodate two or three rows of seedlings 脊梯田開造于元代,從山腳一直盤繞到山頂,大者不過一畝,小者僅插下兩三行禾苗,形成層層梯田繞山村的瑰麗景觀。
That is too small a cushion to compensate for a dramatic disruption in supply from iran ( which pumps 3 . 9m b / d ) , nigeria ( 2 . 3m b / d ) or iraq ( 2 . 1m b / d ) , and barely enough to make up for another terrible hurricane in the gulf of mexico ( 1 . 5m b / d ) 如果伊朗(日產油390萬桶) ,尼日利亞( 230萬桶)或者伊拉克( 210萬桶)的供應發生中斷,這個數字是遠遠不夠作為緩沖的,只夠勉強應付有一個墨西哥灣可怕的颶風(日損失150萬桶) 。
All those young men in paris with incomes of twenty or thirty thousand francs , that is with barely enough to get by in the circles they move in , are all quite aware , when they are the lovers of a woman like marguerite , that their mistress couldn t even pay the rent or her servants on what they give her “在巴黎,那些一年只有兩三萬法郎收入的年輕人,也就是說,那些勉強能夠維持他們自己那個圈子里的生活的年輕人,如果他們有一個像瑪格麗特那樣的女人做情婦的話,他們心里很明白,他們給她的錢還不夠付她的房租和仆役的工資。
The transport fare hikes and the fall - below bank fee will affect a large sector of the population , especially the lower - income masses . many of them have yet to find a job after being laid off during the economic downturn , while others are people who live from hand to mouth , earning barely enough to pay rent and keep their families afloat 公共交通費漲價和銀行征收最低存款服務費影響層面廣,中下層階級人士首當其沖,其中好些是被裁退還沒找到工作,有些則是收入僅僅足夠養家供屋,屬于手停口停的階層。