few

英[fjuː]美[fjuː]

adj. 很少的，几乎没有的；

pron.很少；

n.少数派；

比较级：fewer;

*高级：fewest;

英语六级真题

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Ms.Lareau doesn't believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children's development.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

In those essays, and in follow-up interviews with a few of the teenagers, we found lots of insight, positive feeling and inspirational thinking.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Fewer innovative products were found at this year's electronic products show.

Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.

Few of them are satisfied with the jobs they are offered.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.

But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

Few of us can fill up the tank without buying a few snacks, cigarettes, soft drinks or other items we can live without.

And I want to look at these both from a financial and from a personnel point of view and to offer a few hopefully effective solutions.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime ( ' , 10 美分硬币 ),or even a few thousand dimes.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

A few psychology journals have created incentives to increase interest in reproducible science—for example,by affixing an ‘open-data' badge to articles that clearly state where data are available.

A few weeks after this positive dress rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

A spirit of openness is gaining acceptance in the science community, and is the only way,say advocates,to address a ‘crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced.

After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

And, unlike nutrients that are found only in few foods, protein is present in all foods.

B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

Bria Dunham, a mother in Somerville, Massachusetts, was so excited to watch a moment of brotherly bonding while her first-grader and baby took a bath together that she snapped a few photos.

But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan

Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

Few babies survive this rare condition, and those who do must endure numerous operations and are likely to have complex needs.

Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

For the high-tech sector, there are a few other interesting findings.

For those few hours, I can wrap myself up in my music.

I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

I mean, I've seen the famous films, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's and a few others, but I still don't fully get it.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring possibly painfullysome of his kinetic energy to your own body, or toucan approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

In a few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass many of the abilities that we believe make us special.

In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

In the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands,some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Meanwhile, there're few who're willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major, so the value of one more of those people is very high.

Mobile phone champion Nokia, one of Europe's biggest technology success stories, was no 26 exception, losing its market share in just a few years.

Navajo is hard to learn and only a few people know it.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.

Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.

Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.

Over the next few months, I realized not only could I not afford my dream school, I couldn't even afford the ones where I'd been accepted.

Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.

Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

So Brookdale, the country's largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.

So during the first few moments of the big bang, the universe was extremely hot and very small.

So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

So let's start with a few problems.

Still, if late sleepers want to lose a few pounds, they can go to bed earlier than they usually do, thereby reducing their chances of taking snacks before bedtime.

The impact of a basic discovery on human health can be exaggerated so that the public thinks a miraculous cure is a few months to years away when in reality the significance of the study is far more limited.

Then you had a few companies involved, but not one of the largest companies in the world coming out with a lengthy and impassioned post, like we saw yesterday from timothy Cook.

Today we have a few patches of hair remaining on various parts of our bodies.

We have to plan it properly, and of course there'll be a few problems.

Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.

What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

When a few family members did post pictures, O'Hanlon and her husband made their wishes clear.

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

within a few generations, most had forgotten their native tongues.

Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

DET

少数;几个

You use a few to indicate that you are talking about a small number of people or things. You can also say a very few .

例句

ADJ

(用于形容词和限定词后)几个，少数的

You use few after adjectives and determiners to indicate that you are talking about a small number of things or people.

例句

DET

(前面可用 so，too，very 修饰)极少的,几乎没有

You use few to indicate that you are talking about a small number of people or things. You can use 'so', 'too', and 'very' in front of few .

例句

N-SING

(尤指享有某种机遇等的)少数派，少数

The few means a small set of people considered as separate from the majority, especially because they share a particular opportunity or quality that the others do not have.

例句

PHRASE

少至;仅有;少得只有

You use as few as before a number to suggest that it is surprisingly small.

例句

PHRASE

稀少的;罕见的

Things that are few and far between are very rare or do not happen very often.

例句

PHRASE

不少,相当多(a good few 主要用于英国英语)

You use not a few when you are referring to quite a lot of things or people. You can also use a good few in this way, mainly in British English.

例句

PHRASE

饮酒过度;喝多了

If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.

例句

PHRASE

不少于;不止

You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.

例句

英汉词典释义

adj.

不多的, 很少

（与复数名词和复数动词连用）有些，几个

pron.

少数, 很少, 几个

有些（人、事物、地方）；一些

不和…一般多；少于

（与复数动词连用）少数人

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an indefinite but relatively small number;

2. a small elite group;

Adjective

1. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number;

行业词典

物理学： 少体问题；few-body problem；