1.Hardly had the foot ball game begun when it started raining.

足球比賽才剛剛開始就下起雨來.

2.Hardly have I get home when the telephone rings.

我一到家電話鈴就響了.

另外,hardly 也可以以 scarcely 來替代.

例如：

3.Hardly/Scarcely had we arrived,when it began to rain.

我們剛一到就下起雨來了

1.He hardly needed to break sweat to reach the final.他幾乎不費勁兒就取得了決賽權。

2.For a long time her mother and her grandmother had hardly been on speaking terms.很久以來，她的母親和外婆兩人之間幾乎不怎麼說話。

3.I need hardly tell you that the work is dangerous.這工作很危險，這就不用我說了。

I could hardly refuse, could I?

我很難拒絕，是不是？

I've got hardly any money.

我幾乎不名一文。

Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.

幾乎沒人動嘴回答。

It hardly rained at all last summer.

去年夏天幾乎沒怎麼下雨。

I can hardly believe it.

我幾乎不敢相信。

Sometimes I hardly dare open my mouth.

有時我幾乎不敢開口說話。

I hardly slept a wink.

我幾乎連個盹都沒打。

She hardly dared to venture an opinion.

她幾乎不敢亮明觀點。

He has hardly touched the ball all game.

他整場比賽幾乎沒碰到過球

I hardly dared to hope she'd remember me.

我幾乎不敢指望她會記得我。