1. With scarcely a glance at the items, the clerk sweeps them across an aperture, where a special marking on each item is scanned by a low-powered laser beam inside the machine, connected to a remote computer.
    收款员几乎不看商品，只是把商品从机器上的孔眼处一扫而过，机器里的低能量激光对商品上的一个特殊标志进行扫描，这台扫描机与另一台电脑相联。

2. This food is scarcely edible.
    这种食物算不上能吃.

3. There were scarcely a hundred people present.
    出席的不足一百人.

4. "But scarcely did I awake when away flew the tune and I could not recall any part of it."
    "可我一醒来，那首曲子便无影无踪了，我怎么也记不起来了。

5. It was a small room, on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a setting for a romantic figure.
    艾伯特的房间很小，位于6楼，旅馆的顶层，不像是个传奇人物的住处。

6. I bend close to her and scarcely hear as she whispers, "Water."
    我俯过身去，勉强听见她微弱的声音："水。"