1·Egypt has a surplus of would-be lawyers, slapdash engineers and scarcely numerate accountants but few trained librarians, architects or actuaries.
埃及有许多“将成为”的律师，粗心马虎的工程师，刚能算数的会计师，可是经过专业培训的图书馆管理员、建筑师和精算师人才非常缺乏。
2·Scarcely had he begun to work when John came to see him.
他刚开始工作，忽然约翰来看他。
3·Scarcely had I fallen asleep when a terrible noise awakened me.
我刚睡着，就被一声巨响惊醒了。
4·Scarcely had he entered the room when the telephone rang.
他刚进屋，电话铃就响了。
5·Scarcely % had he opened the door when a gust of wind blew the candle out.
他刚打开门，蜡烛就被一阵风吹灭了。%。
1·Mr. Craven scarcely heard her last words.
克雷文先生几乎没有听到她最后的话。
2·He lay motionless, and listened, scarcely breathing.
他一动不动地躺着，听着，几乎没有呼吸。
3·He opened it, scarcely thinking of the writer, but the first words attracted his attention at once.
他打开信，几乎没有多想是谁写的，但第一句话立刻引起了他的注意。
4·On the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.
另一方面，有许多“被迫的乘客”遭受着气候变化的影响，尽管他们自己对这个问题几乎没有责任。
5·In fact, he believes that collaboration comes so naturally to them, they scarcely give it a second thought.
事实上，他认为这种合作对于他们显得很自然，他们几乎没有第二种想法。
1·The night was dark. The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds; the height of the trees deepened the darkness.
夜是漆黑的。这时，半圆的月亮刚刚离开乌云滚滚的地平线。那些高耸入云的大树越发增加了这种黑暗的气氛。
2·He had scarcely realized before how much the longing to make good that wrong had influenced bis quest of her.
曾经做过许多影响她的不公正的事，现在刚刚意识到他再次去寻找她，那是多么渴望去弥补自己的错误呀！
3·The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds;
这时，半圆的月亮刚刚离开乌云滚滚的地平线。
4·Scarcely had he arrived when he had to leave again.
他刚刚到达就不得不又离开。
1·A country that had just lost the trust of investors in its fiscal rectitude could scarcely build a credible monetary system from scratch.
一个仅仅在财政诚信方面失去投资者信任的国家可以勉强从头开始建立信用货币体系。
2·Man was not sufficiently ready to receive this truth then and is scarcely ready to receive it now.
当时人类尚未充分准备好接受这个真理，现在才勉强准备去接受。
3·I bend close to her and scarcely hear as she whispers, "Water."
我俯过身去，勉强听见她微弱的声音：“水。”
4·Scarcely twenty people were present.
勉强有二十位出席。