few

without or almost without hope.

没有或者几乎没有希望。

There's hardly anything to do here at night.

在晚上几乎没有事做。

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.

几乎没有钱财的状态。

having very little reverberation.

几乎没有回响的屋子。

The rain hardly dampened the ground.

雨几乎没有把地面打湿。

There is scarcely a man but has his weak side.

无缺点的人几乎没有。

Few people wore evening dress.

几乎没有人穿晚礼服。

He had barely enough money to live on.

他几乎没有钱维持生活。

There are few fine cinemas in the city.

本市几乎没有好电影院。

The room was barely furnished.

室内几乎没有陈设可言。

The room was barely furnished, ie had little furniture in it.

室内几乎没有陈设可言.

He has made almost no mistakes.

他几乎没有出过差错。

a thinly veiled criticism

几乎没有遮掩的批评

Without exaggeration I can say that I hardly slept a wink.

我几乎没有合过眼。

There is no [little, not much] prospect of his success.

他没有 [几乎没有,不太有] 成功的希望。

At the close of the party there were few guests who weren’t oiled.

宴会结束时, 几乎没有人没喝醉。

The prosecution introduced few witnesses, the defense none, and evidence was almost entirely circumstantial.

公诉人几乎没有提出证人，没有辩护人，证据几乎都是间接的。

Almost nobody had a cellphone.

也是在十五年前，几乎没有人有手机。