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。"