We dodged a bullet but just barely.
我们仅仅是逃过一劫而已。
We've met our goals, but just barely.
我们已经完成了我们的目标，只不过是勉强达标。
To stay alive, said of a business that remains viable, but just barely.
存活；引申为生意收支勉强打平。
He worked as an editor for many magazines, but just barely supported himself.
他兼任多家杂志的编辑，但仍难以支撑日常生活。
The study was rigged so the couples failed the time limit on the first two tries, but just barely made it on the third, resulting in much celebration.
由于要求严格且有时间限制，很多夫妻在经历两次尝试后，终于第三次获得了成功，自己都激动得庆贺了一番。
Aurora: …Luckily none of the bullets hit the engine block. So, we made it to the border, but just barely, and I- …I've been talking about myself all night long, I'm sorry.
幸亏子弹没有打中发动机盖，所以我们终于到达了边境，但是我…整个晚上都是我在说自己，对不起。
But then you get to a point where there's just barely any pressure on top of the liquid.
然后到达一点，液体上几乎没有压强，在液体上面。
That sort of thing is a good start, but just one step in a long process that has barely begun.
这样的做法的确是个不错的开端，但是在节水的漫漫长路上，这才刚迈出开始的一小步而已。
The more modern units sustained damage but rode out nature’s onslaught, even if just barely, despite facing forces far greater than what they were designed to withstand.
尽管遭遇的灾害远远超出了核电站最初设计的承受能力，新建造的核电站也有损伤，但总算在大自然的猛攻下勉强支撑了下来。
And we are way behind not just China, but the European Community, Japan, Russia, India and barely ahead of South Korea.
我们不仅落后于中国，还有欧盟、日本、俄罗斯，印度，只比韩国高出一点。
Bagram is just 80km (50 miles) from Kabul, but most coalition troops and foreign workers fly between the two in huge military transport planes that barely take off before it is time to land again.
巴格拉姆距喀布尔只有80千米（50英里），但多数联军部队和外国工人都乘飞机往返——飞机刚起飞没多久就又要降落了。
The economists concluded that, just as theory predicts, most people's consumption varies as permanent income changes, but barely responds to temporary shocks.
这几位经济学家的结论是，就像理论预测的那样，大多数人的消费随着永久收入的改变而改变，对短期的冲击却很少调整。
I smiled as I remembered those times, when I was but a child and I could just barely see over the table.
我会想起我还是个小孩子，还没有桌子高的小时候，不由地微笑了起来。
The lucky ones among his opponents was just be thrown into some dungeon or other full of mold and moisture, but barely even the molecule of eatable food.
幸运一点的对手可能会被关进满是霉菌、充满湿气的地牢——但那儿几乎连一点可吃的食物都没有。
She was just a village girl barely literate with no idea of the world but sloe had a freshness an eagerness for life that with help of the language barrier made her seem interesting.
她是一个十足的农村姑娘，没有多少文化，没见过世面，但是她有一种清新的韵味，有一种对生活的热望。这两个优点，再加上语言上多少有点障碍，使她似乎能激发人的好奇心。
She was just a village girl barely literate with no idea of the world but sloe had a freshness an eagerness for life that with help of the language barrier made her seem interesting.
她是一个十足的农村姑娘，没有多少文化，没见过世面，但是她有一种清新的韵味，有一种对生活的热望。这两个优点，再加上语言上多少有点障碍，使她似乎能激发人的好奇心。
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