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单词 hardly any
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hardly any
b. hardly any: almost no; (in pronominal use) almost none.
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1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. xii. f. 140v Hardly any man obteyneth the end of his suyt..without grete dyligence and paynfull toyle.
1576 H. Gilbert Disc. Discov. New Passage Cataia v. sig. E.ii Hardly any ship..can come into our westerne Ocean, thorow that fret, from the west Seas of America.
1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iii. 62 The smooth, small, long Plants..haue put out hardly any branches.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 502 Hardly any would spurt out of the opened Vein.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World i. 7 Expressions full of contempt of the Commission, making it appear as a thing of hardly any validity or consequence.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 26 July (1992) II. 256 I believe she has had hardly any fruit but Gooseberries.
1809 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1808 573/1 Hardly any of the most undoubtedly legitimate representators of our noblest families now knows of his existence .
1841 T. De Quincey Style: No. IV in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 216/1 With a life of leisure—but with hardly any books.
1867 Weekly New Mexican 23 Feb. 1/4 There are hardly any persons in this part of the country, who are able to raise money enough to work quartz-veins.
1907 J. H. Poynting in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 14 749 Prof. Lowell..pays hardly any attention to the ‘blanketing effect’..of the atmosphere.
1957 E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 II. 635 There are parallels enough for isolative raisings occurring in spite of, but hardly any for a combinative raising because of, a following r.
2006 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 6/1 Hardly any area of family life would be exempt from the new eco-taxes.
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