hardly
日本語WordNet
only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
JMdict
AIによる解説
Hardly is an adverb meaning almost not, scarcely, or barely.
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He could hardly believe the testimony contradicted physical evidence documented meticulously by forensic investigators.
彼は、証言が法医学調査官によって細心の注意を払って文書化された物理的証拠と矛盾していることをほとんど信じることができませんでした。
Hardly anyone anticipated the magnitude of resistance the controversial ordinance would encounter from affected stakeholders.
論争の的となる条例が影響を受けた利害関係者から遭遇する抵抗の大きさを予想した人はほとんどいませんでした。
Hardly could contemporaries comprehend the astronomical implications of heliocentric cosmological theories challenging religious doctrines fundamentally.
宗教的教義を根本的に挑戦する太陽中心的宇宙論の天文学的含意を、同時代人はほとんど理解できなかった。
Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz