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1 词典释义:
few
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英 [fjuː]

determiner.几个;少数;很少的;几乎没有的;

adj.不多的;很少的;几乎没有的

pronoun.很少几个人;没有多少事物;

双语例句
  • I sprinted the last few metres.

    我全速跑完最后几米。

    《牛津词典》
  • We kicked a few ideas around.

    我们随便谈了几个想法。

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  • We had to stop every few miles.

    我们每走几英里就得停一停。

    《牛津词典》
  • Few soldiers were in evidence.

    几乎看不见有士兵。

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  • Real power belongs to the few.

    真正的权力掌握在少数人手中。

    《牛津词典》
  • I've roughed out a few ideas.

    我已有几个初步设想。

    《牛津词典》
  • Matches cost only a few pence.

    火柴只需几便士。

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  • A few cars passed close by me.

    几辆车从我近旁驶过。

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  • It's only a few steps further.

    再走几步就到了。

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm going away for a few days.

    我要离开几天。

    《牛津词典》
  • We drove on for a few miles.

    我们继续开了几英里。

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  • It took only a few seconds.

    那只需要几秒钟。

    《牛津词典》
  • It only took a few seconds.

    那只需要几秒钟。

    《牛津词典》
  • They've gone away for a few days.

    他们已外出几天了。

    《牛津词典》
  • That was a few years back.

    那是几年以前的事。

    《牛津词典》
  • I made a few phone calls.

    我打了几个电话。

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  • He kept a few dairy cows.

    他养了几头奶牛。

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  • A few tourists were buzzing around.

    几名游客在匆忙地跑来跑去。

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  • We stood talking for a few minutes.

    我们站着谈了几分钟。

    《牛津词典》
  • We've had a few replies.

    我们已得到了一些答复。

    《牛津词典》
  • I've simply extracted a few figures.

    我只是摘取了一些数据。

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  • Few will argue with this conclusion.

    很少有人会不同意这个结论。

    《牛津词典》
  • Few members planned to vote for him.

    很少有成员计划投他的票。

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  • There are few who have not suffered.

    几乎无人免于受难。

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  • Few people understand the difference.

    很少有人了解这个差别。

    《牛津词典》
  • I spent a few hours quietly relaxing.

    我怡然自得地轻松了几个小时。

    《牛津词典》
  • Could I begin with a few formalities?

    我可以从一些例行程序开始吗?

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  • Few can resist the lure of adventure.

    很少有人能抵御历险的诱惑力。

    《牛津词典》
  • He mumbled a few words.

    他咕哝了几句。

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  • A few latecomers were still arriving.

    几个迟到者还在陆续抵达。

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短语搭配
  • 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

近义词
adj. 很少的;几乎没有的
反义词
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。

考纲分布

6年出现 414

重要程度
  • 86%

    n (usually a ~)一些; 几个

  • 14%

    adj/n 很少的; 少数

考纲释义
  • n. (usually a ~)一些; 几个

    英文释义:

    used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean ‘a small number’, ‘some’

    真题例句:

    • Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his eyes.

      突然,几块五颜六色的小石头引起了他的注意。

      [2020年 山西省卷 单项选择]
    • Rick has won five gold medals(奖牌) in the last few years.

      在过去的几年里,里克赢得了五枚金牌。

      [2020年 陕西省卷 选择填空]
    • Here are a few.

      这里有几个。

      [2019年 河北省卷 综合填空]
  • adj/n. 很少的; 少数

    英文释义:

    used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean 'not many'

    真题例句:

    • Few people want to have new challenges(挑战) at that age.

      在那个年龄,很少人想拥有新的挑战。

      [2020年 陕西省卷 信息摘录]
    • So there are few clothes in it.

      所以里面衣服很少。

      [2018年 乌鲁木齐市卷 完形填空]
    • Most people want to be happy, but few of them know how to find happiness.

      大多数人都想快乐,但很少有人知道如何找到快乐。

      [2018年 新疆卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few 和 a few 都用来修饰可数名词,few“没几个”,“几乎没有”, 表示否定意义;a few \有几个”“有一些”, 表示肯定意义。示例:(1) There are a few books on the desk.桌上有几本书。(2) He is very shy, he has few friends.他很内敛,几乎没什么朋友。

  • few和little都可以表示否定意义“不多”“几乎没有”, 但是few 修饰可数名词,little修饰不可数名词。示例:(1) He has few friends.他几乎没什么朋友。(2) I have little money.我没有钱。

单词辨析
  • few意为“几乎没有”,具有否定意义,修饰可数名词复数

  • little意为“几乎没有”,具有否定意义,修饰不可数名词

考纲分布

12年出现 13

重要程度
  • 100%

    adj/n 少数

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 少数

    英文释义:

    not many but some; a small number of

    真题例句:

    • In the past few years, an increasing number of people and organisations have begun coming up with plans to counter this trend.

      在过去的几年里,越来越多的人和组织开始提出计划来应对这一趋势。

      [2021年 浙江卷 阅读理解]
    • One difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

      不同的是:今年的毕业生中,开始找工作的更少了。

      [2016年 全国卷1 听力]
    • People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories (卡路里) per meal than those who rush through their meals.

      吃得慢的人往往比那些匆匆忙忙吃饭的人每餐少消耗约70卡路里的热量。

      [2015年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few 和 many 恰恰相反,但 a good few ≈ a good many ≈ quite a few,均表示 很多。

单词辨析
  • 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。

  • little只修饰不可数名词,含否定意义。

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

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  • A few students hesitated to start.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • Fewer emissions and cheaper travel sound pretty appealing.

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

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

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  • I last saw him a few months ago.

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  • 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.

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    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
考纲分布

12年出现 57

重要程度
  • 100%

    adj/n 少数

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 少数

    英文释义:

    not many but some; a small number of

    真题例句:

    • Spend a few nights on a small island.

      在一个小岛上住几个晚上。

      [2020年 CET4 听力]
    • Lack of sleep, reduction of productivity and weight gain are only a few.

      睡眠不足、生产效率降低和体重增加只是少数。

      [2020年 CET4 听力]
    • We have found very few instances of bad customer behavior at our store in the past year.

      在过去的一年里,我们很少在商场发现不良顾客行为。

      [2020年 CET4 听力]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few 和 many 恰恰相反, 但 a good few ≈ a good many ≈ quite a few, 均表示 很多。

单词辨析
  • 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。

  • little只修饰不可数名词,含否定意义。

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 ( ' , including Veiseh) 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 ( ' , 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Pure enjoyment of problem-solving, for a lucky few.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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
考纲分布

12年出现 18

重要程度
  • 61%

    adj/n 少数

  • 39%

    n (a ~)一些; 几个

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 少数

    英文释义:

    not many but some; a small number of

    真题例句:

    • Automation is increasingly replacing jobs and leaving too few good new jobs behind.

      自动化正越来越多地取代工作,留下的好的新工作太少。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解C]
  • n. (a ~)一些; 几个

    英文释义:

    used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean 'a small number' or 'some'

    真题例句:

    • But I need to be careful with it for the next few weeks.

      但接下来的几周我需要小心处理。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • In contrast, the small cultivator is working only a few acres of land.

      相比之下,小耕农只耕种几英亩土地。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • Research shows that a few moments of conversation with a stranger creates a measurable improvement in mood.

      研究表明,与陌生人交谈片刻,情绪就会有明显的改善。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few 和 many 恰恰相反, 但 a good few ≈ a good many ≈ quite a few, 均表示 很多。

  • few 和 a few 都用来修饰可数名词,few“没几个”,“几乎没有”, 表示否定意义;a few 有几个”“有一些”, 表示肯定意义。 示例:(1) There are a few books on the desk. 桌上有几本书。 (2) He is very shy, he has few friends. 他很内敛,几乎没什么朋友。

  • few和little都可以表示否定意义“不多”“几乎没有”, 但是few 修饰可数名词,little修饰不可数名词。 示例:(1) He has few friends. 他几乎没什么朋友。 (2) I have little money. 我没有钱。

单词辨析
  • 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。

  • little只修饰不可数名词, 含否定意义。

真题例句
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Fewer innovative products were found at this year's electronic products show.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Few of them are satisfied with the jobs they are offered.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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 ( ' , 10 美分硬币 ),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 ( ' , 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.

    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
考纲分布

18年出现 61

重要程度
  • 59%

    adj/det/pron 不多; 很少; 没几个

  • 34%

    adj/det/pron (a ~)一些; 几个

  • 7%

    n (the ~)少数人

考纲释义
  • adj/det/pron. 不多; 很少; 没几个

    英文释义:

    used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean ‘not many’

    真题例句:

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

      我们中很少有人不带电话就直接走进树林。

      [2019年 英语一 完型填空]
    • But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

      但是很少有其他地方的客户比美国的客户更有理由抱怨。

      [2014年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

      现在很少有人打开DNT(请勿追踪),但如果追踪关闭,它将保持关闭。

      [2013年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • adj/det/pron. (a ~)一些; 几个

    英文释义:

    used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean ‘a small number’, ‘some’

    真题例句:

    • I've found quite a few, and—since I started posting them on Twitter—they have been causing quite a stir.

      我发现了很多,而且从我开始在推特上发布它们以来,它们已经引起了不小的轰动。

      [2021年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • Here are a few other ways AI is aiding companies without replacing employees.

      以下是人工智能在不替换员工的情况下帮助公司的一些其他方式。

      [2021年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • All animals download, but only a few upload.

      所有动物都下载,但只有一些上传。

      [2012年 英语一 阅读理解B]
  • n. (the ~)少数人

    英文释义:

    used with a plural verb to mean ‘a small group of people’

    真题例句:

    • The few feed on the many.

      多数供给,少数盈利。

      [2020年 英语一 阅读理解A]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few作代词,表示“很少,不多”时,作主语时谓语动词要用复数形式。

  • only few, so few相当于few,表示否定;some few相当于some,表示肯定。

真题例句
  • 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