英语释义

1. not many persons or things
few were present few of his stories are true

2. consisting of or amounting to only a small number
one of our few pleasures

3. at least some but indeterminately small in number —used with a
caught a few fish

4. few in number and infrequently met rare

5. a small number of units or individuals
a few of them

6. a special limited number
the discriminating few

7. not many people or things

8. some people or things

9. a small number of people or things that are chosen or regarded as special or unusual in some way

10. not many

11. not many but some

12. not many people or things
Few were prepared to perform.

13. not many but some
I caught a few fish. They had few complaints.

14. a small number of people or things
A few of the students are new.

片语

scarceness稀少；缺乏

exility稀少；纤细；稀薄

英汉例句

• arctic voyages arelucrative, in demand, and relatively safe (pirates are few and far between in baffin bay).

  北极游的优势在于获利丰厚，需求量大同时较为安全——在巴芬湾很难看到海盗的蹤迹。

• that didn’t matter so much 20 years ago when personal computers were few and far between , but times have changed.

  20年前个人计算机还相当稀少的时候，这件事并没有那么重要，但是时代不同了。

• to date, mobile exploits have been few and far between and have had no major impact on the industry as a whole or on consumer confidence levels regarding these devices.

  到目前为止，披露的手机溢出漏洞还很少，它还无 法对整合产业和消费者信心造成重大的沖击。

• good listeners are few and far between and they will be remembered.

  好的倾听者是不常遇到的，他们将会被记住。

• but it also has ambitious nuclear power targets and its quest for uranium – repositories of which are few and far between – has thrown the rivalry into sharper focus.

  但它同时还有着雄心勃勃的核实力目标，中国对储量稀少的铀资源的追逐，让人们更为关注上述竞争。

• pampered middle-class kids are few and far between on the doddington estate in south london, a public housing complex known locally for knife crime and dogfights.

  在伦敦南部的一个公共住宅区多丁顿村，当地有名的持刀犯罪和打混战的发生地，优渥的中产阶级家的孩子们并不多见，且离得比较远。

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couple结合；连接；连合

handful少数；一把；棘手事

scatter零星散布的东西；离差；散射

scattering散射；分散

smatter一知半解

smattering一知半解；少数；略知

sprinkle撒，洒；少量，一点；稀疏小雨；（撒在糕饼上作装饰用的）彩糖，糖屑

sprinkling洒；点缀（sprinkle的现在分词）

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army陆军，军队

crowd（一批人）（使）挤满；逼近（某人）；聚集；（想法或观点）塞满脑子；催促（因而使人生气或不快）

flock聚集；成群而行

horde一大群，群；游牧部落

host[计] 主机；主人；主持人；许多

jillion巨量，极大数目

legion众多的；大量的

many(Many) （美、法、加、印）马尼（人名）

mountain(Mountain)人名；(英)芒廷

multitude大量，多数；群众，人群

oodles许多，大量

scads很多；巨额

thousands数千（thousand的复数）

zillion无限数的