用法
（用於修正作出的陳述）幾乎不，幾乎沒有
例句：
I hardly know you...
我不太認識你。
Nick, on the sofa, hardly slept...
尼克在沙發上幾乎沒睡。
He was given hardly 24 hours to pack his bags...
只給了他不到24小時的時間來打點行裝。
幾乎不;幾乎沒有
例句：
We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish...
我們每晚吃炸薯條，但幾乎從不吃魚。
Most of the others were so young they had hardly any experience...
其他人大多都很年輕，幾乎沒什麼經驗。
Hardly anyone slept that night.
那天晚上幾乎沒人睡覺。
（用在否定句中是某事經常發生）幾乎不
例句：
Hardly a day goes by without a visit from someone.
幾乎每天都有人來。
（用於can之後，表示強調）很難
例句：
I can hardly believe it's been over eight years since you used to go camping at Cedar Creek...
我幾乎無法相信現在距離你過去常常去松溪露營的日子已經有8年多了。
My garden was covered with so many butterflies that I could hardly see the flowers.
我的花園裡飛舞著很多蝴蝶，我幾乎看不見花了。
（表示兩件事情緊接著發生）剛剛，才
例句：
He had hardly collected the papers on his desk when the door burst open...
他剛收起桌上的檔案，門就猛地開了。
Hardly had he returned to London when an anonymous well-wisher called to say he was about to be raided by Customs & Excise.
他剛回到倫敦，就有一個不願透露姓名的好心人打來電話說，他即將面臨海關的突擊檢查。
（表示希望聽者或讀者贊同自己）並不
例句：
We have not seen the letter, so we can hardly comment on it...
我們還沒有看到這封信，所以無從發表意見。
It's hardly surprising his ideas didn't catch on...
他的想法沒有被廣泛接受，這並不足為奇。
The growth rate for 1980-89 was 2.2%. Hardly the stuff of economic miracles.
1980至1989年間的經濟成長率是2.2%，算不上什麼經濟奇蹟。
（尤用於對不贊同的說法表示驚奇）不可能
例句：
“They all thought you were marvellous” —“Well, hardly.”...
“他們都認為你很棒！”“喔，不可能吧！”
'We could almost have seen it,' — 'Hardly, darling — in the dark and from a distance of a good hundred feet?'
“我們幾乎都看到它了。”“不會吧，親愛的——天那么黑，離得又至少有100英尺呢！”
雙語例句
1. Don't be a cry baby.That tiny scratch can hardly hurt at all.
不要一碰就哭，那么一點傷根本就不怎么痛。
2. We had hardly started before[when] it began to rain.
我們剛出發，就開始下雨。
3. Tina is as quiet as a mouse—you hardly know she's there.
蒂娜很文靜——你幾乎不知道她在那兒。
4. Torn between anger and self-reproach, he could hardly fall asleep.
他又是氣憤，又埋怨自己，簡直沒法睡著。
5. I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing.
我很難想像你會做出這種事情。
