查询词典 scarcely...but

Daddy and mama scarcely associate with the people here, for which I thought, at first, that it was because of their inside self-containing and adherence of an intellectual, but, in fact, it was the homesickness leading to lonesome.

老爸老妈几乎不跟本地人交往，原以为是知识份子骨子里的清高和固执，其实内是浓重乡愁牵绊下的寂寞。

But lawyers who work 12-hour days do not bake Christmas cookies. They scarcely have time to buy them.

但每天工作12个小时的律师做不了圣诞曲奇，他们甚至连上街买的时间都没有。

A new China was scarcely visible over the horizon, but with Mao dying, Jiang Qing and others knew the Old China was moribund.

新中国已经曙光初现，随着毛泽东的逝世，江青等人明白旧中国即将消亡。

The first notions of a Jus Gentium may have been deposited in the minds of the Roman lawyers long before the appointment of a Praetor Peregrinus, but it would only be through extensive and regular trade that they would be familiarised with the contractual system of other Italian communities, and such a trade would scarcely attain considerable proportions before Italy had been thoroughly pacified, and the supremacy of Rome conclusively assured.

一个&万民法&的最早观念也许在委任一个&外事裁判官&之前早就存在罗马法律家的心中，但只有通过广泛的和正常的贸易，罗马法律家才能熟悉其他意大利社会的契约制度，而这类贸易在意大利获得彻底平靖和罗马的最高权力断然确立之前，是很难达到相当的规模的。

But there was scarcely another eye that could behold this living picture of health and beauty without pausing on it with pleasure.

但是别人看到这副健康与美丽的化身，无不欣然瞩目。

I think he's learned how to approach hitters....

Johhny Damon说，『他已是最好的了，再没有人能够比他做的更好，我想他的球技已经完全成熟了，而且他也已经学会了如何去对付和压迫各种打击者。。。。。。

In effect, an 18 foot King Cobra could actually look down onto the average human being.

际上，一个18尺眼镜蛇王其实可以俯视到的平均人。