I hardly need to say that I have never lost contact with him.

几乎不用说，我从未和他失去联系。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

You never know where you stand with her—one minute she's friendly, the next she'll hardly speak to you.

你从来拿不准你和她的关系如何—她一会儿跟你亲热，一会儿连话也不大跟你说。

《牛津词典》

It's hardly surprising she was fired; she never did any work.

她被解雇了不足为怪，她从来没干过任何工作。

《牛津词典》

And he'd never,rather like Louis-Napoleon, had hardly ever been in Paris before; he really hadn't,I don't think,ever.

他不像路易·拿破仑,以前很少到过巴黎,他是从来没去过

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

ECONOMIST: Saudi fiction

True, but with Beethoven as never before individual human aspirations, fears and passion are central to the music, threatening to overwhelm its structure, albeit never (well, hardly ever) doing so.

ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Western classical music

Medical rationing is never easy, and is hardly helped by the war of words between large and small transplant centres.

ECONOMIST: States v. Washington