He could barely speak.

他已经几乎说不出话了。

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Now we have Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, who barely speak to one another.

现在我们看到戈登·布朗和巴拉克·奥巴马也只是相互空谈。

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Teachers sometimes could barely speak standard Mandarin, which, in theory, is the language of instruction.

有时，老师们还不能用标准的普通话授课。

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I suddenly realized I was in this absurd situation: I am an amateur baker, I hadn't been in a church in years, I barely speak French, and found myself going over to try to restore the lost 1300-year-old tradition of baking at the abbey."

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Now they barely speak, choosing to communicate via faxes and lawyers.

FORBES: Family Feud

For one, the essence of the American dream: how a little Cuban-American kid on the margins of mainstream America could grow up with confidence, have the opportunity to become an engineer thanks to the hard work of his parents who could barely speak English, and then go on, choosing to become a poet who is now asked to speak to, for and about the entire nation.

CNN: Inaugural poet: My story is America's

Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker