一、hardly的用法
1.hardly用作副词，具有否定意义，句中不可再使用其他否定词。基本含义是：几乎不，几乎没有，很少。常与any连用，译为“几乎没有”。与ever连用，表示否定的频度，表示“难得，很少”。
He hardly ever goes to bed before eleven o&39;clock.
他很少在11点以前上床。
I had hardly ever gone out these days.
这些天我很少出去。
Hardly anybody came.几乎没有人来。
He could hardly refrain himself.他几乎不能自制
2.hardly常修饰动态动词或者系表结构，位于实义动词前，系动词、情态动词、第一个助词之后。
3.hardly也可修饰名词、代词、形容词。位于句首时，需借助动词构成倒装语序。
4.hardly用于反意疑问句时，附加问句需要用肯定式。
5.hardly had...when结构，意为“刚...就...”，表示一件事紧接着一件事情发生，通常与过去完成时连用。
二、hardly的常用短语
用作副词 (adv.)
hardly ever
几乎从不,很少,难得 very seldom
He hardly ever goes to bed before eleven o&39;clock. 他很少在11点以前上床。
I had hardly ever gone out these days. 这些天我很少出去。
hardly的用法例句
1. The ward was busy and Amy hardly had time to talk.
病房里非常忙碌，埃米几乎没有时间说话。
2. My eyes were so swollen I could hardly see.
我的眼睛肿得很厉害，几乎看不到东西。
3. Their two faces were hardly more than eighteen inches apart.
他俩的脸相隔还不到18英寸。
4. Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it&39;s a desolate place.
这里大半遭毁，几乎没有一栋建筑完好无损，变成了一块荒废之地。
5. He appeared hardly capable of conducting a coherent conversation.
他好像连话都说不清楚。
