The payments he gets barely cover his expenses.
他几乎是入不敷出。
When the tide ebbs, you can paddle out for a mile and barely get your ankles wet.
退潮时,你可以蹚水走出1英里远而几乎湿不到脚踝。
He was barely listening until the salary was mentioned. Then he pricked up his ears.
他几乎没在听,直到提到薪水。然后他竖起耳朵。
When we were children, we barely had any junk food available, and we turned out just fine.
当我们还是孩子的时候,我们几乎接触不到任何垃圾食品,我们还是过得很好。
During the day, your brain is a beehive of activity—during NREM sleep, it is barely humming.
在白天,你的大脑就像一个活跃的蜂窝——在非快速眼动睡眠期间,它就几乎没有嗡嗡声了。
Unlike extreme poverty, moderate poverty generally refers to conditions of life in which basic needs are met, but barely.
与极端贫困不同,中度贫困一般指的是基本需求勉强得到满足的生活条件。
The problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing, and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.
问题是我对3D打印几乎一无所知,而且我只有9个月的时间来弄清楚如何打印出5种时髦的造型。
He did well in mathematics, but barely scraped through in chemistry.
他数学考得不错,但化学只是勉强及格。
In barely more than a decade, organic eggs went from being dismissed as a niche product in natural foods stores to being sold at Walmart.
在短短十几年的时间里,有机鸡蛋从天然食品店里无人问津的小众商品,变成沃尔玛大卖场的商品。
I had barely started speaking when he interrupted me.
我刚刚开始讲话,他便打断了我。
How else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound?
仅仅采用三十多个简单的音节,语言究竟是如何创造出这么多词句呢?
The girl, who once thought she was in love, often finds she barely knew the man.
而一度觉得自己已爱上对方的女孩往往会发现其实自己根本不了解这个男人。
Ram Kaur looks fondly at her grandson, barely hours old, lying beside his mother.
RamKaur深情注视着自己那出生仅几个小时的孙子躺在妈妈身边。
Teddy Jr could barely walk with his new artificial leg, let alone go out in the snow.
刚刚装上假肢的小泰迪几乎不能迈步,更遑论在雪地里行走。
The thinnest screens now are barely 8mm thick and can fold like a piece of paper.
现在市场上最薄的屏幕可达8毫米并且可以像纸一样弯折。
Once upon a time, although it seems barely credible to us now, we were all children.
很久很久以前,虽然现在看起来已模糊不清,我们都曾是孩子。
I spoke to farmers who only ten years ago barely made ends meet as subsistence farmers.
与我交谈的农民仅十年前还在从事仅能糊口的自给型农业。
But still, it amazes me that I've been around that long - I feel like I've barely begun.
但已经活了这么久仍然让我感到很神奇,我以为我的人生刚开始呢。
The tortoise - who is barely the size of its mum's foot - can expect to live to 150 years.
这只身材仅有妈妈的一个脚掌大的小龟,寿命约为150年。
I said I could never give up my car, but I barely drive now and am going car-free next month.
我曾说我不可能离开小轿车,但现在几乎不开车并计划下个月不开车。
Panasonic is emerging as a pioneer in such beauty-care gadgetry, with barely a rival in sight.
松下正成为此类美容护理小器具的先锋,放眼望去几乎没有竞争对手。
Some days I feel like I can run and never stop, some days I can barely finish a 20-minute run.
有些天我感觉自己很能跑,简直不需要停下来,有些天我又只能勉强跑个20分钟。
Some days I feel like I can run and never stop, some days I can barely finish a 20-minute run.
有些天我感觉自己很能跑,简直不需要停下来,有些天我又只能勉强跑个20分钟。
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