barely简单

can barely retain its current employees.

几乎留不住现有员工。

A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states a grade B+ or higher.

由科学家和教师组成的非营利团体——美国国家科学教育中心去年开展了一项研究，考察全国各州公立学校如何在科学课上讲授气候变化，结果只有勉强一半的州获得了B+或更高的评级。

In barely more than a decade, organic eggs went from being dismissed as a niche product in natural foods stores to being sold at Walmart.

在仅仅十多年的时间里，有机鸡蛋就从被视为天然食品店里的小众产品而不受重视，变成了在沃尔玛出售的商品。

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they survived on barely enough food allotted to them.

在六到十二周的航程中，他们靠分配给他们的勉强够吃的食物活了下来。

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from, is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

这些花园似乎回应了——或者说源于——另一种冲动或需求，它是如此内在，以至于我们几乎从未意识到它对我们持久的要求。

He’s feeling positive, but he’ll carry on blogging — not about eating as cheaply as you can — “there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food” — but eating well on a budget.

他感觉很乐观，但他会继续写博客——写的不是如何吃得尽可能便宜——“有那么多人处境比我糟糕得多，几乎没钱买吃的”——而是如何在有限的预算内吃得好。