scarcely
[副]1 やっと,かろうじて;ほとんど…ない(⇒hardly[類語])scarcely thirty people30人そこそこsay scarcely a wordほとんど一言も口をきかないH...
scarcely ... when [before, till] ...
…するやいなや…する,…するかしないうちに…する(◆scarcely とともに用いる動詞は完了形をとる)I had scarcely waited a minute before he came...
Scarcely had he begun when it started to rain.
彼が始めるやいなや雨が降り出した(◆He had scarcely begun ...より文語的)
She had hardly come home when [before] she started to complain.
彼女は家に帰るやいなや不平を言い始めた
the instant (that) ...
〔接続詞的に〕…するとすぐ,…するやいなやI knew it was him the instant I saw him.会ったとたんに彼だとわかった