He has
barely enough money to live on.
他的钱仅够勉强维持生计.
Sales in 2009 could be
barely half of that.
2009年的销售额可能仅为这一数字的一半。
Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.
几乎没有人注意到，也没有人说话。
The project was
barely in embryo.
该计划只是个雏形。
He's
barely able to make ends meet with his part-time job.
他靠兼职工作勉强能维持生计。
The baby was
barely awake when I left this morning.
我今天早上离开时，婴儿几乎还没睡醒。
She scored
barely above average on the test.
她在考试中的分数仅仅高于平均水平。
We
barely had time to catch our breath before we had to leave.
我们几乎没有时间喘口气就不得不离开了。
The room was
barely large enough for the furniture.
房间几乎容不下所有的家具。
They
barely survived the storm, thanks to the emergency shelter.
多亏了紧急避难所，他们才勉强在风暴中活了下来。
He
barely speaks English, so it's difficult for us to communicate.
他英语说得很少，所以我们很难交流。
I
barely remember the event because it happened so long ago.
我对那件事的记忆非常模糊，因为那是很久以前的事了。
The temperature dropped to
barely above freezing last night.
昨晚的气温降到了零度以上一点点。
Barely anyone attended the meeting; it was a complete failure.
几乎没有人参加这次会议，完全失败了。
To realize faster progress, Yin said he and his team barely rested, even during holidays.
尹说，为了实现更快的进步，他和他的团队几乎没有休息，即使是在假期。
"With the above uncertainties, it's barely possible to give a precise prediction on future oil prices, but an approximate $100/barrel and $85/barrel, respectively, for this year and next year could be made considering the general trend," Ma said.
马说：“鉴于上述不确定性，很难对未来油价做出准确预测，但考虑到总体趋势，今年和明年的油价可能分别约为100美元/桶和85美元/桶。”。
CNBC found Musk started 2020 worth about $27 billion, and was barely in the top 50 richest people.
CNBC发现，马斯克在2020年初的身家约为270亿美元，在全球最富有的人的排行榜上仅排在前50名左右。
"The anti-monopoly law is rather new in China and is barely used compared to other countries and that resulted in the re-occurring problem of price fixing," said Jin Jianmin, a senior fellow at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo.
The 20 factory workers are from divisions such as metal, painting and CNC machine tools, and 90 percent of them had barely learned programming, according to Jabil Green Point Technology (Wuxi) Co, which participated in the training as an iPhone supplier in China.
The throughput dropped dramatically and port facilities were barely functioning.
But for now, Chiu is still marveling at how his business has become so successful in a market he barely knows.
You can barely find a phrase that properly encapsulates all businesses of Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Before he was employed at the project, he used to work everywhere, barely making ends meet.
As to industry, China has metamorphosed from a barely self-sufficient country into the largest exporter in the world over the past four decades.
Cixi, a county barely known to football enthusiasts in Zhejiang province, has seen its exports to 32 World Cup participating countries surge dramatically this year.
Human translators can barely meet the ever-growing translation needs of government departments and Party offices at all levels and Chinese enterprises operating abroad, said Fang.
Hytera also said the vote would barely affect its business.
"He was too busy to listen to what I had prepared, and just said, 'Now our computer system can barely recognize 30 percent of false car registration plates.
"If you have 10 million pigs to raise, you can barely count how many piglets were born on a daily basis when the due date comes," said Zhang Haifeng, chief information officer of Tequ Group.
Wang said Wanda has been barely affected by the growth of e-commerce business, and in the future, the group will continue to strengthen experiential shopping to increase consumer loyalty.
As Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas, the heart of US oil and gas industry, and knocked out almost a quarter of the entire US refining capacity, operations of Chinese oil companies in the area have barely been affected, senior executives of the companies have said.
That apart, until recently, I barely grasped its essence.
As such, they barely have time to get a haircut or see a doctor," Yu said.
To this end, the role of the government in boosting market confidence is very important, as either a single consumer or an enterprise barely has the ability to affect the confidence of the overall macroeconomy.
According to the estimates by Bloomberg Economics released Wednesday, a downturn by the start of 2024, "barely even on the radar just a few months ago, is now close to a three-in-four probability. "
China is likely to raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from next Tuesday, the tenth fuel price increase since the end of last year, as the price of oil has barely budged since Saudi Arabia and allied producers agreed to start pumping more quickly.
What is behind COVID, conflictsWe are now in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the virus still mutating, making it barely possible to foretell when it will end.
High inflation and tightening monetary policy in Europe and the US will push up yields on bonds, while Chinese government bond yields may easily dip and barely rise with easing monetary policy.
For quite some time in 2020, it barely had any revenue.
Among them, a quarter are in the red, 22 percent can barely break even, and 53 percent are profitable.
在他们之中，有四分之一处于亏损状态，22%勉强实现盈亏平衡，而53%是盈利的。
Yet, as the momentum for the country's consumption has not returned to the pre-pandemic level yet, smaller businesses were not able to increase sale prices and pass on such costs to consumers," he said, "While, on the other hand, smaller businesses are barely able to bargain with upstream suppliers on prices.
他说：“然而，由于国家消费的势头尚未恢复到疫情前的水平，小型企业无法提高销售价格并将此类成本转嫁给消费者。另一方面，小型企业几乎无法与上游供应商在价格上进行有效议价。”
Tourism vitalizes rural townshipFor hundreds of years, Tibetan residents here earned a living by farming and raising livestock, barely making ends meet, with a slim income.
Such is the pressure created by orders generated by cross-border e-commerce channels that he and his staff can barely breathe these days, said Xu.
"We barely got anything to eat and wear, and trapped in extreme poverty year after year," Dalong said.
In China, high upstream inflation partially translated into faster inflation in intermediate goods, but was barely visible in downstream consumer goods other than food, the report indicated.
Many Kenyans who initially lived in Nairobi and left years ago can barely recognize the city today.
Wang Qian, head of LinkedIn talent solutions China, said the pandemic has barely affected Chinese companies' overseas expansion in 2020.
"Even five months ago, we could barely earn 60,000 yuan ($8,935) per month as there were not many tourists due to the fear of the COVID-19 contagion," Lu said.
For instance, barely 10 days after Chang An was released, dine-in orders from domestic tourists in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, increased 387 percent year-on-year.
Mo Daiqing, a senior analyst at the Internet Economy Institute, a domestic consultancy, said major online cross-border retailers hope to grab the opportunities arising from the unfading enthusiasm of Chinese consumers, although China's Singles Day shopping extravaganza ended barely two weeks ago.
This was barely 12 billion yuan in 2020.
In the second quarter of this year, the company — founded barely six years ago — posted revenue of 6.2 billion yuan, a growth of 88 percent year-on-year.
今年第二季度，这家仅成立六年之久的公司实现了62亿元人民币的营收，同比增长88%。
Last week's guideline of the US Treasury Department allowing only US-based solar developers to secure tax credits, would barely affect the country's reliance on Chinese supplies, considering the limited production capacity in the United States, industry experts said.
"With fewer concerns over operating costs, secondhand luxury dealers can sell luxury goods at relatively low prices, which are barely seen in booths in malls, in communities," said Lyu Xiaotong, an independent investment expert based in Wuhan, Hubei province.
It is also quite safe to play as the sport barely requires physical contact," she said.
- At a shopping mall in the heatwave-hit Jiangsu province, customers barely felt any temperature change while the air conditioners kept readjusting their electrical load to ensure grid stability during peak hours.
In comparison with the same period last year, China's 100 largest real estate developers' accumulated sales revenue tumbled 50.3 percent to 3.06 trillion yuan ($452.3 billion) in the first half, said E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Ltd. "Among those listed property firms that have announced their annual sales goals, most of them have accomplished less than 40 percent of their annual targets as of the end of June, while nearly half of them have barely reached 30 percent," said Ding Zuyu, CEO of E-House (China).
Also, it would be wise to establish a securitization mechanism to make better use of real estate developers' assets that barely generate returns but carry debt burdens.
"Sewing a baseball is to tie a shoelace on the ball," said Li, who has never played the sport and has barely watched it on TV.
Domestic fuel prices will remain unchanged or barely changed when the price of crude oil on global markets hits $130 a barrel, the commission said.
"But I barely see any training institutions across the nation yet.
In addition, the region has little pollution, vegetables barely need any pesticides and fields are irrigated with mountain spring water.
此外，该地区污染极少，蔬菜几乎无需使用农药，农田灌溉用水来自山间清泉。
However, some secluded places, especially those with poor public transportation, are barely known.
然而，一些偏僻的地方，尤其是那些公共交通不发达的地方，几乎不为人所知。
Capital infusions are a huge contrast to less than $500 million that top education startups could barely muster a year ago.
“资本注入与一年前顶级教育初创公司勉强筹集到的不到5亿美元形成了巨大反差。”
"We could barely make ends meet by working on the farm.
我们几乎无法靠在农场工作来维持生计。
The progress marks a major accomplishment for China, which has evolved from being a follower into 3G, then barely catching up with leading countries in 4G, and now finally being able to pioneer 5G applications around the world, experts said.
专家表示，这一进展标志着中国的一个重大成就，从在3G时代作为追随者，到在4G时代几乎赶上了领先国家，到现在终于能够在全球范围内引领5G应用的发展。
"You could barely see trees in the village or surrounding areas, but only bushes and shrubs because local villagers bet on cutting down trees to sell them (as firewood or furniture raw material) to make a living," said Yu, the village official.
村官余表示：“在村里或周边地区，你几乎看不到树木，只能见到灌木丛，因为当地村民依靠砍伐树木（作为木柴或家具原材料）来出售谋生。”
Yang Hong, general manager of Hainan Golden Ocean Travel Agency, said the company barely received any orders for a few months since the outbreak of the epidemic.
You could barely see the river because it was all covered with bushes and silt.
During the January-February period of 2019, he was so busy he could barely find time to WeChat.
The sight of deliverymen speeding on their two-wheelers on China's roads has become so common I used to barely notice them until recently.
"Just two years ago, global recession was barely on the minds of CEOs in our survey," said the New York-based Conference Board.
As the world's factory, the country now ranks first in the production of clocks, bikes, furniture and beer, while it could barely make enough soap and clothing to meet domestic demand 70 years ago.
One of the stark truths was this: China's annual output of crude oil barely surpassed 120,000 tons in 1949, far from enough to meet domestic demand.
The business barely allowed them to make ends meet.
A provisional airport with a control tower that is barely eight meters in height has served the area since 2016, with an obsolete and even manual communications system.
Demand for hospitality services grows as number of Chinese travelers surgesWhile most of the country's workers enjoy a welcome break in May, those working in pet hotels will barely have a chance to draw breath.
In the past, many moviegoers rushed to the cinema to get a ticket for just 9.9 yuan or 19.9 yuan, which was barely half of the full price.
Barring a couple of Chinese students, I barely noticed any compatriots on the ship.
In the past, consumers in China barely repainted their apartments.
However, the growth of China Southern's international flights is unsatisfactory, and it barely seeks assistance from foreign airlines," he said.
Travel agencies barely organize group tours to Lombok, given the low demand, limited number of local hotels and ordinary transportation, according to Ctrip, China's largest online travel agency.
"Farm work was barely profitable and very laborious.
Stress on R&D, funding, new laws, policies and colleges defines efforts for edge in chipsShan Zenghai, chief engineer of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group, had barely begun his speech when he was recognized by President Xi Jinping, who sat face to face with him at a group deliberation during the annual session of China's national legislature earlier this month.
In addition, more than half of the surveyed Chinese enterprises are "AI Experimenters", who have barely scratched the surface of AI's potential and lack mature AI strategies and related capabilities.
In 2019, China's NEV sales barely surpassed 1 million units and only accounted for 5 percent of total vehicle sales.
Ghosn is facing financial misconduct charges and was arrested in connection with fresh allegations and taken back into custody last week after spending barely a month out of detention on bail.
Following a series of management reshuffles and a slow start in the world's largest market, Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroen Automobile's sales in China barely made it past the half-way mark of their 2017 target, resulting in substantial losses for the joint venture carmaker.
The management team believes its business model has established the right mindset for their new brand in a segment with barely any competition, instead of the heating up SUV segment.
Market positions of top smartphone vendors remained barely unchanged.
By comparison, in the third quarter Apple was barely ranked fourth globally.
The country has transformed from being a follower into 3G, then barely catching up with leading countries in 4G, to a pioneer of 5G applications around the world.
Despite these, Japan's GDP growth in real terms has barely topped 3.5 percent since 1991, trailing other economies of the Group of Seven for most of the time.
It barely impacts the currency's internationalization, which instead depends on the country's economic and trade heft as well as financial opening-up progress.
"It is barely possible to wear these devices for more than one or two hours.
The latest report by the International Monetary Fund said that in 2018 the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan had been broadly in line with sound economic fundamentals for the medium term and that Chinese monetary authorities had barely intervened in the foreign exchange market.
The latest report by International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded that the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan was "broadly in line with medium-term fundamentals", and the Chinese monetary authority barely intervened in the foreign exchange market.
The Dow has barely recovered as it closed on Tuesday at 25,347.
The market is trying to get more indications from the monetary authority, although the Chinese central bank barely sends any hints on possible monetary policy operations before taking action.
""As at the end of 2017, official reserves for most countries in the MEFMI region stood barely at or below the traditional three months of import cover benchmark.
Their forecast for rate hike pace barely changed compared to March's projections.
Bond prices barely moved, as most of the fixed income products were bought by state-owned banks and held to maturity, said Daniel Christen, an analyst with Capital Economics, a research agency.
"In Shenzhen, with the money I had access to, I could barely buy a decent apartment in central area, due to high prices and purchase limits.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed at 3,154.66 points on April 28, the final trading day of last month, barely moving from the 3,103.64 points at closing on December 30, 2016, as market sentiment was weighed on by factors including a slew of regulatory measures to contain financial risk.
This soil contains so much salt that barely any crops can be grown on it.