【问】 When we finally managed to get home after the tiring long journey，we could not hardly move a step further. (TOEFL，72.3)
 标准答案规定(C)是错误的。但我认为we could not hardly move是正确的，它的意思恰好相当于“我们几乎不能移动”。
 【答】 应当牢牢记住，hardly，如同little，few，rarely，seldom，scarcely一样，属于半否定词之列。不应把hardly译作“几乎”，而应译作“几乎不”。因此，在表示否定含义时，不应再出现其他否定词，如not，no，none等等。
 1. I hardly know how to write.
 我几乎还不会写字。
 2. I hardly know the people I work with.(LDCE)
 我几乎不认识同我一起工作的人们。
 3. We hardly had time to eat breakfast. (Thorndike)
 我们几乎没有时间吃早饭。
 请做下面的英语试题：
 1. Newly designed tires which have hardly no tread increase the racing speed considerabHardly did he 502ly.(TOEFL，77.2)
 2. the start， Ned found of his schoolmates as as . (TOEFL，73. 3;74. 6)
 3. They________ chance to make contact with outsiders.
 A. had almost to B. hardly had any
 C. hardly D. almost had not
 4. He remember the accident because he was only a boy it
 5. hard he is working， he will the principle of working as as he can.
 6. they away， they hardly go to beach anymore.
 7. “I can't understand what Karl says. ”“That's because he_________hardly speak English. ”
 A. can B. can't
 C. how D. how to (TOEFL，70. 3)
 8. Chief Joseph La Flesche，a Omana leader， worked to make his nationa and progressive (TOEFL，93. 1)
 (参见hard/hardly，scarcely)