few

高中CET4CET6

英[fjuː]
美[fjuː]

基本释义

adj.
很少的,几乎没有的
pron.
很少
n.
少数派

词性变化

实用例句

You can pass with as few as 25 points.

只需要25分就可以及格。

牛津词典

(formal)Few will argue with this conclusion.

很少有人会不同意这个结论。

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I recognized a few of the other people.

我认出了一些其他的人。

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I've seen most of his movies. Only a few are as good as his first one.

他的电影多数我都看过。只有少数几部能与他的第一部媲美。

牛津词典

Could you give me a few more details?

你能再给我提供一些详情吗?

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Fewer than 20 students passed all the exams.

不到20个学生考试全部及格。

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Very few of his books are worth reading.

他的书值得读的太少了。

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Few people understand the difference.

很少有人了解这个差别。

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There seem to be fewer tourists around this year.

今年来访的旅游者似乎少了。

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Very few students learn Latin now.

现在学拉丁语的学生少得很。

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We've had a few replies.

我们已得到了一些答复。

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I need a few things from the store.

我需要从商店买些东西。

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Quite a few people are going to arrive early.

相当多的人打算早到。

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I try to visit my parents every few weeks .

我尽量每隔几个星期看望一次父母。

牛津词典

The factory may make as few as 1,500 cars this year.

今年,工厂生产的小轿车可能只有 1,500 辆。

Successful women politicians are few and far between...

成功的女政治家凤毛麟角。

In this economic climate new ideas were few and far between.

在这种经济环境下,新想法极为罕见。

I've made this argument, and not a few people would disagree with me...

我提出了此论点,而这会是相当多的人都不同意的。

I think a good few of the others were like me, a bit confused.

我觉得其他人中不少都像我一样,有点迷惑不解。

A breathalyzer tells you you've a had a few too many.

呼吸分析器显示你饮酒过量。

No fewer than thirteen foreign ministers attended the session.

至少有 13 国外长出席了这届会议。

I gave a dinner party for a few close friends...

我为几个密友办了晚宴。

We had a few drinks afterwards...

后来我们喝了几杯。

The past few weeks of her life had been the most pleasant she could remember...

过去几周是她记忆中平生最愉快的日子。

The leaders are expected to fly to Mecca in the next few days to seal the agreement.

领导人将在接下来的几天中飞往麦加签署协议。

She had few friends, and was generally not very happy...

她几乎没什么朋友,总的来说不怎么开心。

Few members planned to vote for him...

几乎没什么成员打算投他的票。

This should not be an experience for the few.

这不应是少数几个人的经历。

...a system built on academic excellence for the few.

建立在面向少数人的精英教育上的体制

One study showed that even as few as ten cigarettes a day can damage fertility...

一项研究显示,一天只抽 10 支烟也会损害生育能力。

真题例句

is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

They show fewer withdrawal symptoms.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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 have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 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.

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Few people really know the importance of sleep.

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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

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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 ,or even a few thousand dimes.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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 some of his kinetic energy 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.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

A few students hesitated to start.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

A few times each year, an inspector arrived to look over the entire light station.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Although he is known to only a few people here, his reputation abroad is very great.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 句子填空 原文

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 单项填空 原文

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

Block, I need to take a few days off because my father is coming over to visit.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But one difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

But the river wasn't changed in a few days or even a few months.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

But there are still a few things I need to do before I go.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry v minimizes his misuse of power.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it right away.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.

2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

Few want to live without search engines or a quick delivery.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Fewer emissions and cheaper travel sound pretty appealing.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

For a time, a few birds survived under human care.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

From what I have seen, few do homework; instead many are on their phones and talking, making it impossible for those who actually want to do work to complete any.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

Here are a few tips to help you win over everyone in the neighborhood quickly.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Here are a few tricks for remembering what you read.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

His works have received many prizes and have been shown in over 100 exhibitions across the country, Los Angeles, New York, philadelphia, to name just a few.

2016年高考英语四川卷 听力 原文

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Human development results in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

I last saw him a few months ago.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

I'd like to start our new term with a few notices.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

If you are not going to suffer this problem, then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum's home for dinner, get a few cooking tips from her.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

In the following few days, the men and women helping rockaway recover inspired Natalie.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In the last few years, China has made great achievements in environmental protection.

2015年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Later, however, there will be a few showers in high places.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文

Living just a few blocks from the beach, Natalie can see the ocean and hear the wave from her house.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Yes, but a few blocks down town would be much more expensive.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

Michelle Higgins, eminent photographer and columnist for quite a few internationally-known travel magazines.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 信息匹配 题设

Most food webs, for instance, consist of many weak links rather than a few strong ones.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

New-born chicks can then imitate their mom's call within a few days of entering the world.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Over the next few days, they sent out invitations and prepared desserts for their guests.

2015年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those who rush through their meals.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

People's lifestyles are reflected in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She coughed and choked and could hardly survive her first few weeks.

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Some astronauts feel sick on the station during the first few days because their brains receive contradictory messages.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The convenience even leads fewer people to take public transport——an unwelcome side effect researchers have already found in ride- hailing services.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The dark cloud above one of the world's toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The nursery team switches him every few days with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, the other is with mum-she never suspects.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at jamaica's olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

There are a few here that might interest us.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

There are a few things that bother me though.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

They might have found a better hotel if they were to drive a few more kilometers.

2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

They went farther north into the deep forests of Canada, where there were fewer humans around.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

This view is especially evident on kilimanjaro as climbers go through five ecosystems in the space of a few kilometers.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

Those opportunities are now fewer and farther between.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

With any luck, he'll turn a few more heads in the process.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the inventions of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to diffusionists, then spread to other cultures.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

There are simply too few posts.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Fewer students require fewer teachers.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

All animals download, but only a few upload.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowingly positive.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

People will not get fewer ads.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Pick a standard work uniform or a few go-to options.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

"Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," he claimed.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.  

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

Few of us just walk straight into the woods without a phone.

2019年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If you get lost without a phone or a compass, and you  literally can't find north, a few tricks to help you navigate back  to civilization, one of which is to follow the land.

2019年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both d

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In theory, the success of an applicant should not depend on the few others chosen randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was otherwise.

2013年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Instead, they look after their well-being instinctively, and usually more effectively than we do as grownups. Perhaps it's time to learn a few lessons from them.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

On a cold winter's day, few culinary pleasures can match it.

2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Sociologist Catherine Kohler riessman reports in her new book divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed — but only a few of the men — gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed support for the measure, and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The researchers'argument stems from a simple observation about social influence: with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence-even the most influential mem

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

These have included Britain's DPT diverted profits tax, Australia's MAAL multinational anti-avoidance law, and India's SEP significant economic presence test, to name but a few.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable一meant to last only a wash or two, although they don't advertise that一and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They found that the principal requirement for what is called global cascades 一 the widespread propagation of influence through networks 一 is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Workers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

2010年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

You won't be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant —£1.75 a week for three months gives you £21 — more than enough for a three course lunch at Michelin-Starred Arbutus.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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"

同义词辨析

little, few, several

这几个词用作形容词时均含"少量的"之意。

  • 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。

同义词

adj.很少数的;有些,几个

verylittlenotnumbersmallmany

其他释义

many

反义词

adj.少数的

many

最新英语单词

行业英语

单词索引:
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短语索引:
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