few
adj. 很少的；几乎没有的
pron. 很少
n. 很少数
n. (Few)人名；(英)菲尤
adj.
很少的；很少；（与复数名词和复数动词连用）有些；几乎没有的
pron.
很少；有些（人、事物、地方）；（与复数动词连用）少数人；不和…一般多
n.
很少数；
双语释义
adj.(形容词)不多的,很少 not many
pron.(代词)少数,很少,几个 a small number; but at least some
英英释义
few[ fju: ]
n.
an indefinite but relatively small number
"they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
a small elite group
"it was designed for the discriminating few"
adj.a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number
"a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"
词汇搭配
用作形容词 (adj.)
～+名词
few words沉默寡言
few years没有几年
用作代词 (pron.)
动词+～
have few喝几杯
形容词+～
chosen〔select〕 few精选出的少数
faithful few少数几个忠诚的人
介词+～
for few为少数人
of few在…中的几个
词组短语
quite a few不少，相当多
only a few很少；只有几个；几乎没有
a few days ago几天前
every few每隔几…
few words沉默寡言的人，少言寡语的
some few不少，有一些
few and far between稀少；彼此相距很远；不常发生
in a few days过几天；不日；在几天后
no fewer than不少于；不低于；多达
these last few days最近几天
with few exceptions极少例外
a good few相当多
with a few exceptions有些例外
at the fewest至少
同近义词辨析
several, little, few这组词都有“少量的”的意思，其区别是：
several修饰可数名词的复数形式，指至少有3个，但不会超过5、6个。
little只修饰不可数名词，含否定意义。
few只修饰可数名词的复数形式，侧重指数量非常少，给人一种模糊概念，含否定意义。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
We saw few students there.
我们在那儿几乎没看见学生。
The sunny intervals we were promised have been few and far between.
我们原可望能有几阵晴天，结果却很稀少。
Very few girls went to school then.
那时几乎没有女孩子去上学。
Only a few of my friends were informed about it.
这件事只有我的几个朋友知道
It's easy to while a few hours away in a museum.
在博物馆里很容易打发掉几个小时。
My time is precious; I can only give you a few minutes.
我的时间很宝贵，我只能见你几分钟。
用作代词(pron.)
Few of us have his address.
我们中几乎没有人知道他的地址。
权威例句
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Layer Area, Few-Layer Graphene Films on Arbitrary Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition
From Few to Many: Illumination Cone Models for Face Recognition under Variable Lighting and Pose
Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction
A Note on the Two Derivations of Maxwell-Dirac Isomorphism & a Few Plausible Extensions
"The Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research": A Few Comments and Some Suggested Extensions.
Learning Generative Visual Models from Few Training Examples: An Incremental Bayesian Approach Tested on 101 Object Categories
Learning generative visual models from few training examples: An incremental Bayesian approach tested on 101 object categories
Definition and Response to the Problem of "Many Cases but Few Judges"——From the Perspective of Optimization within the Court
few
few: [OE] Few traces its history back to the Indo- European base *pau-, denoting smallness of quantity or number, amongst whose other descendants are Latin paucus ‘little’ (source of English paucity [15], French peu ‘few’, and Italian and Spanish poco ‘a little’), Latin (and hence English) pauper ‘poor’, and English poor and poverty. In Germanic it produced *faw-, whose modern representatives are Swedish få, Danish faa, and English few.=> pauper, poor, poverty
few (adj.)
Old English feawe (plural; contracted to fea) "not many, a small number; seldom, even a little," from Proto-Germanic *faw- (cognates: Old Saxon fa, Old Frisian fe, Old High German fao, Old Norse far, Danish faa). This is from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little" (cognates: Latin paucus "few, little," paullus "little," parvus "little, small," pauper "poor;" Greek pauros "few, little," pais (genitive paidos) "child;" Latin puer "child, boy," pullus "young animal;" Oscan puklu "child;" Sanskrit potah "a young animal," putrah "son;" Old English fola "young horse;" Old Norse fylja "young female horse;" Old Church Slavonic puta "bird;" Lithuanian putytis "young animal, young bird"). Always plural in Old English, according to OED "on the analogy of the adverbial fela," meaning "many." Phrase few and far between attested from 1660s. Unusual ironic use in quite a few "many" (1854), earlier a good few (1803).
There is likewise another dialectical use of the word few among them [i.e. "the Northern Counties"], seemingly tending to its total overthrow; for they are bold enough to say--"a good few," meaning a good many. [Samuel Pegge, "Anecdotes of the English Language," London, 1803]
few (n.)
"a small number of persons" (distinguished from the many), c. 1300, fewe, from few (adj.).
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. [Winston Churchill, 1940]
1. I met few people congenial to me in the department.
在那个单位里我没碰到几个意气相投的人。
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2. The thief mooched few apples when we are not looking.
那个小偷乘我们不注意偷了几个苹果。
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3. Year by year a few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.
年复一年，这些俚语中的一些证明是十分有用的，因而逐渐进入了上流社会。
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4. Faith was one of the few people in the class willing to befriend a new freshman.
费思是班里愿意与新来的一年级新生交朋友的少数人之一。
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5. Few of my friends were there.
我的朋友中几乎没有人在那里。
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6. After a few drinks, he always becomes boastful about his experience.
几杯酒下肚，他总要口出大言，吹嘘自己的经历。
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7. The editor killed a few useless lines.
编辑删掉了几行无用的文字。
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8. The music appeals to the few.
这种音乐只有少数人能欣赏。
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9. Only the few are likely to enjoy this film.
只有少数人可能会欣赏这部影片。
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10. A few of the men wore hats.
这些男人中有几个戴着帽子。
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11. I feel that the writer has garnished the story of his life with a few inventions.
我感到作者在写他自己的生活经历时添加了一些事实上没有的东西。
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12. She knocked up an acquaintance with a few people in this neighbourhood.
她偶然与住在这个居民区的几个人相识。
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13. The chairman passed quickly over the first few items to leave more time for the main business of the meeting.
最初的几项事情主席很快地一带而过，以便留下更多时间去谈会议的重要议项。
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14. Only the few advisers around the party leader understood his real motives.
只有少数接近党领导人的顾问们才了解他的真正动机。
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15. The committee disinterred a few old studies done by the predecessors to prove their point.
该委员会再现了由前任作的一些旧研究以证明他们的观点。
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16. We rushed through the last few design drawings so as to go home early.
我们赶紧把最后几份设计图纸搞完以便早点回家。
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17. They have refined on their teaching methods for the last few years.
他们在过去几年中改进了他们的教学方法。
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18. I like to keep a few envelopes about in case I need them.
我喜欢在手头留存一些信封，以备不时之需。
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19. A few young men crashed the gate at the football game.
有几个年轻人不买票就闯入大门看足球赛。
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20. A few daffodils were already poking up.
有几棵水仙花已经开始抽芽。
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21. Few men have had such transcendental capacity to stir the heart of people.
很少人有如此超群出众的打动人心的才能。
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22. The crowd drowned her first few words in cheers.
她开头的几句话被淹没在群众的欢呼声中。
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23. The general laid down a few strategic targets on the map.
将军在地图上标明了几个战略目标。
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24. He looked me up and down and then asked me a few questions.
他上下打量了我一番，然后问了我几个问题。
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25. He cast up all the figures in a few minutes.
他在几分钟内就把所有的数字加在一起了。
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26. Few of her early articles are preserved.
她早期的文章没有几篇留存下来。
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27. Few writers care to prefigure the future.
很少有作家对预测将来感兴趣。
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28. He has lived among the aboriginal inhabitants for a few years.
他已经与土著居民一起生活了几年了。
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29. The painter touched in a few patches of colour with a fine brush.
画家用一根细画笔又补画了几个色块。
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30. Although he had only rehearsed the part a few times, he carried it off beyond all expectations.
他对这角色虽然只排练了几次，但是他完全出人意料地演得非常成功。
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31. There are only a few manual affordances.
手动启示数量很少。
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32. (Contrary to what you might suspect, few users are able to clearly articulate their needs.
（与猜测正好相反，极少有人能够清楚地表述自己的需要。
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33. Here are a few symptoms of this affliction.
这些产品带给我们的痛苦列举如下。
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34. Few products let a user draw a graph and, on command, convert that graph into a vector of numbers.
很少有产品让用户画图，然后在命令中将图像转为数字向量。
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35. Experts might occasionally look for esoteric features, and they might make heavy use of a few of them.
专家可能会不时寻找深奥的功能，并且会经常使用其中一些。
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36. There are a few ways that color can be misused in an interface if you are not careful.
如果不小心，颜色在界面上就会被滥用。
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37. Icons are a complicated topic from a cognitive standpoint, and we will only highlight a few key points here.
从认知角度来说，图标设计是一个复杂的话题，这里我们仅仅简单触及一些。
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38. The function and behavior of the product must address goals via tasks—typically, as few tasks as absolutely necessary.
产品的功能和行为必须通过一系列任务来达到目标，通常任务尽可能越少越好。
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39. It is obviously counterproductive to treat workers like idiots to protect against those few who are.
为防范少数几个人，把所有的工作人员都当做白痴，这显然适得其反。
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40. There are few established behavioral conventions for them, particularly with respect to terminating commands.
非模态对话框很少建立行为规范，尤其是终止命令。
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