appena Anglais:

I worked out so hard at the gym yesterday that today I can barely move.

There were just barely over 100 houses in the village we passed yesterday.

Tom always speaks in such a low voice that I can barely understand what he says.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.

he barely wors

It's a biggish chair, but it'll just barely fit through the doorway.

We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.

The sun had barely risen at the foot of the mountain when she set out alone up the slope.

I couldn't hurt him, I've barely touched him!

they barely saw their father except at special family gatherings

This is true of Greece, where production covers barely 50% of domestic consumption.

A barely perceptible rise in air temperature

I ordered it the day before and I barely had any recollection.

These shoes are too tight, I can barely walk. // It's so loud here, I can barely hear you. // I had barely finished my coffee when she called.

He just left.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?

A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.

Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.

The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.

He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.

Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.

Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.

Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.

I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.

I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.

He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.

I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.

If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."