解釋

adv.僅僅，勉強，好容易才；幾乎不，幾乎沒有；赤裸裸地，無遮蔽地；公然地，露骨地，公開地；

例句

Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, could barely utter two consecutive sentences without mentioning the plumber.
而麥凱恩的發言人塔克。邦茲幾乎是不提這位水暖工就說不上一句整話了。

The big ship barely skinned through the open draw.
那艘大船勉強通過了那開合式橋樑的缺口。

All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantès had so nearly divulged.
維爾福的全部力量都用在封住那幾乎被唐太斯所泄漏的秘密上了。

Barely had he done this when another gust rolled the dark clouds over half the sky.
剛上好了雨布，又是一陣風，黑雲滾似的已遮黑半邊天。

The wild subspecies that gave up their DNA for these tests still exist, though barely.
這些野生亞種貓被放棄的DNA儘管存量稀少，但是在上述試驗中依然存在。