1.There were barely a hundred people there.
那里只有不足一百人。
2.Over the past two decades, as democracies replaced police states across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, and a new economic dynamism lifted hundreds of millions of eastern and southern Asia out of poverty and into the middle class, the Middle East stagnated in a perverse time warp that reduced its brightest people to hopelessness or barely contained rage.
在过去的20年里，当民主体制取代了中欧、东欧和拉丁美洲的警察政权时，当一种新的经济动力将成千上万的东亚人和南亚人从贫困带入中产阶级行列时，中东依然囿于不合时宜的固执偏见中不能自拔，这使该地区的有智之士陷入绝望或赤裸裸的愤懑之中。
3.The data barely show it yet, but the financial malaise could yet be aggravated by a broader economic malaise.
而一旦实体经济出现问题，金融危机可能会雪上加霜，尽管数据表明当前的情形还不至于那么坏。
4.Their wages are barely enough to keep the wolf from the door.
他们的工资勉强够维持生活的.
5.they could barely hear the speaker; we hardly knew them; just missed being hit; had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open; would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats.
他们刚刚能听到讲话；我们才认识他们；正好躲过被击中；刚刚按门铃门就开了；她刚刚到达就找到了些借口离开——W·B·叶芝。
6.It was brutal competition, and I was barely competitive.
比赛非常残酷，我几乎没有什么竞争力。
7.But they just barely beat us in the very last game.
但他们仅仅在最后一盘打赢了我们。
8.We expend huge effort in hiding aspects of ourselves that others would barely notice.
其实别人不一定注意到，我们却花大力气去掩盖。
9.The survivors have closed plants, sold property and, after protracted deliberation, barely tiptoed into developing markets.
幸存的企业关闭了厂房，出售了资产，并在长时间深虑之后，如履薄冰地进入发展中国家的市场。
10.Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky. Even to hear of it turns the cheek pale, With the highest crag barely a foot below heaven. Dry pines hang, head down, from the face of the cliffs, And a thousand plunging cataracts outroar one another And send through ten thousand valleys a thunder of spinning stones.
蜀道之难难于上青天！ 使人听此凋朱颜。 连峰去天不盈尺， 枯松倒挂倚绝壁。 飞湍瀑流争喧豗， 砯崖转石万壑雷。
