On the flip side, there are many forced riders, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
In the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADV-BRD-NEG
刚刚;才;勉强
You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case.
"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
2. almost not;
"he hardly ever goes fishing""he was hardly more than sixteen years old""they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"