同义词
反义词
  • adj.
    few的反义词之:少数的
    many
同义词解析
  • 以下这几个词用作形容词时均包含 "少量的" 的意思
    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。
    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。
词组
  • every few
    once in every small group of (typically units of time) (尤指时间单位)每隔几…一次
  • few and far between
    scarce; infrequent 稀少,罕有;稀疏
  • a good few
    (Brit.)a fairly large number of (英)大量的,许多的
  • have a few
    (informal)drink enough alcohol to be slightly drunk (非正式)喝得微醉
  • no fewer than
    used to emphasize a surprisingly large number [强调数字大得惊人] 不少于,多达
  • not a few
    a considerable number 众多的,大量的,可观的
  • quite a few
    a fairly large number 相当多的,不少的
  • some few
    some but not many 一些,有些
英语四级真题
  • is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.
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  • They show fewer withdrawal symptoms.
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  • Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.
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  • It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.
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  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
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  • In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • There were no petrol pumps and few garages, so every driver had to be his own engineer for the frequent breakdowns.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • How can I help you?The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Well, if this were true, we would all be slipping a few 100-dollar bills to our doctors on the way out their doors, too.
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  • Pure enjoyment of problem-solving, for a lucky few.
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  • If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.
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  • A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.
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  • Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Few people really know the importance of sleep.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "Chauncy is a top student who is doing his best to make it in a world with no money and very few resources," White explained on the crowd-funding site.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • "In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • A few additional roads would come later.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • A few minutes later, the pressured strokes started to produce a relieving effect and my body and mind began to sink deeper into relaxation.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • A three-stage life has few transitions, while a multi-stage life has many.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • As for the taxi drivers, most are delighted to be behind the wheel of new cars,although there have been a few complaints about switching from black and white to a plain white colour.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Even so, relatively few young women 15% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Even so, relatively few young women 16% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • I didn't feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to lessen.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • I might just have to review a few accountancy terms.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It depends on just how many bacteria can make it from floor to food in a few seconds and just how dirty the floor is.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • It didn't take long for magazines and documentary filmmakers to come to understand her "total recall", and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects including Veise have since come forward and contacted the team at the University
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It has existed for just a few years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Only a few kinds of drugs can cause physical dependence.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes, but few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Restaurant Week starts in just a few days, the first Sunday in May.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The manager told me that Jack Green's been very active around the shop the last few days.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • These products are only a few examples of the many ways space technology helps us in our everyday lives.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • This is why few locals in Seattle carry an umbrella generally.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Those are a few of the traits of successful science crowdfunding efforts that emerge from a recent study that examined nearly 400 campaigns.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • While the study didn't assess why divorce is more likely when wives but not husbands become seriously ill, Karraker offers a few possible reasons.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
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  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Ms.Lareau doesn't believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children's development.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In those essays, and in follow-up interviews with a few of the teenagers, we found lots of insight, positive feeling and inspirational thinking.
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  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
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  • It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.
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  • 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.
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  • Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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  • Fewer innovative products were found at this year's electronic products show.
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  • Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.
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  • Few of them are satisfied with the jobs they are offered.
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  • 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.
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  • But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.
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  • And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.
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  • About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.
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  • In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.
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  • Few of us can fill up the tank without buying a few snacks, cigarettes, soft drinks or other items we can live without.
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  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • 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.
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  • Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
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  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • A few weeks after this positive dress rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • And, unlike nutrients that are found only in few foods, protein is present in all foods.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Few babies survive this rare condition, and those who do must endure numerous operations and are likely to have complex needs.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • For the high-tech sector, there are a few other interesting findings.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • For those few hours, I can wrap myself up in my music.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • 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.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In a few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass many of the abilities that we believe make us special.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • 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.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Navajo is hard to learn and only a few people know it.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • 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
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • So during the first few moments of the big bang, the universe was extremely hot and very small.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • 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.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • So let's start with a few problems.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • 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.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Today we have a few patches of hair remaining on various parts of our bodies.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • We have to plan it properly, and of course there'll be a few problems.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • 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.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • When a few family members did post pictures, O'Hanlon and her husband made their wishes clear.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • within a few generations, most had forgotten their native tongues.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. an indefinite but relatively small number;
    "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
    2. a small elite group;
    "it was designed for the discriminating few"
  • Adjective
    1. 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"
行业词典
  • 物理学: 少体问题;few-body problem;