hard与hardly
hard——作副词用的意思是w ith greateffort(用大力气),在修饰不同的动词有不同的汉译,参见下面句子
( 1 ) They study English veryhard
他们努力学习英语。
( 1 ) The baby looked at me andcried harder and harder.
这婴儿看一看我哭得更厉害。
( 3 ) The baby crocodile thoughthard, then he had an idea.
小鳄鱼用心想,于是想出了一个主意。
( 4 ) It rained hard yesterday.
昨天下了大雨。
hard也可以作形容词用,其意思difficult, not easy例如:
It is hard to answer thisquestion,
这问题很难回答。hard还可作软硬的“硬”解。如:
which is the hardest, steel, woodor rubber?
哪一个最硬,钢、木或橡胶?
Ha rdly——作副词用是almost not(几乎不)的意思。例如:
( 1 ) I could hardly lift the box,it was very heavy.
我几乎不能抬起这箱子,它太重了。
( 2 ) You are so big and the jaris so small that it could hardly holdone of your feet.
你的个子这么大,坛子这么小,它甚至盛不下你的一只脚。
( 3 ) After a week's
holiday he had hardly anymoney left.
一周假期之后。他几乎没剩下多少钱了 。 (only just a little)
记住:hard是“努力地”,“困难的”,“硬的”的意思,而hardly是“几乎不”的意思。