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the few

/fyoo/US // fyu //UK // (fjuː) //

少数,少数人,几位,少数的

Related Words

several若干,几个,几,几位some一些,有些,某些,有的petty小气,小气的,小气鬼,琐碎minority少数人,小众,少数民族,少数派less更少,较少,少,更少的scanty微薄的,稀少的,轻微的,微薄slight纤细的,纤细,纤弱的,纤微lean精简,瘦身,倾斜,瘦肉精middling中等水平,中等,中等水平的,中等规模short短期,短期的,短暂的,短暂minute分,分数,分分钟,分别scattering散射,散射作用,散射性,分散minor未成年,小型,小型的,未成年人trifling琐碎的,琐碎,琐碎的事,琐事sprinkling洒水,洒落,洒布,喷洒smattering零星的,零星,零散的,零散spattering喷溅,溅射,溅射的,飞溅的exiguous冗长的,冗长,毗连的,毗连imperceptible不易察觉的,不易察觉,难以察觉,难以察觉的inconsequential不重要的,无关紧要的,无关紧要,不重要

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    few·er, few·est.

    • : not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small number or amount: Send me a few.
    • : the few, a special, limited number; the minority: That music appeals to the few.
pron.代词 pronoun
  1. 1
    • : a small number of persons or things: A dozen people volunteered, but few have shown up.

Phrases

  • few and far between
  • few bricks shy of a load
  • few words
  • a few
  • bricks shy of a load, (a few)
  • of few words
  • precious few
  • quite a bit (few)

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inminority
Synonyms
opposition反对派,反对,反对党,反对意见less than half不到一半,少于一半,低于一半,不到半数splinter group分裂集团,分裂组织,分裂团体,分裂体the outnumbered寡不敌众,敌众我寡,寡不敌众的情况,寡不敌众的人the outvoted被淘汰的人,落选者,被淘汰者,被淘汰的

Examples

  • A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”

  • Like many Americans—but few Republican presidential candidates—the former Florida governor has evolved on the issue.

  • Sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.

  • We do see that a few European countries have them on the books: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ireland, a couple more.

  • So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

  • And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.

  • But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.

  • So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"

  • Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

  • Few people, I think, realize that, and fewer still realize the reasonable consequences of that.

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