It is the only compassion that seems acceptable to us: a feeling that perhaps you hardly understand and that seems to you scarcely virile.
这看似是唯一我们所能够接受的怜悯：这种感情你们几乎无法理解，对你们而言，这似乎缺乏阳刚之气。
I had hardly [scarcely] closed my eyes when someone knocked at the door.
我刚一闭上眼，就有人在敲门了。
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
几乎没有人万事皆通，也几乎没有人绝对一无所能。
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