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pron.（动词用复数）较少数；

adj.较少的，不多的( few的比较级 )，很少，（与复数名词和复数动词连用）有些，几个；

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Most people have speech, but significantly fewer have writing.大多数人都能说，但能写的人就少多了。

In former times there were far fewer people dwelling on earth than there are now.从前生活在地球上的人比今天少得多。

Statistics show that people now drink less beer than they used to, and smoke fewer cigarettes.统计数字表明, 人们现在比过去喝啤酒少了, 而且烟抽也少了。

The firm has less money and fewer staff than last year.公司的资金和人员都比去年少了。

I used to have many men friends but there are fewer now that I’m past my bloom.我曾有许多男性朋友,但现在已寥寥无几了,我开始走下坡路了。

Honest politicians cannot be bought,but they are becoming fewer.诚实的**家不能为金钱所动,但这样的人却日益稀少。

He is an advocate of more airplanes and fewer warships.他是一个提倡多造飞机、少造*舰的人。

In Morse code all letters are four or fewer characters long.在Morse电码中所有字母的长度只有四个或不到四个符号.

Now I meet with fewer difficulties in my work.现在我工作中困难少些了.

Men attach more importance to marriage than women do, and there are fewer male celibates.男人们更重视结婚.男性独身主义者比女性独身主义者更少.

英语六级真题

Though the United States has fewer women in the workforce(68percent compared to Sweden's 77 percent).

How can it be that societies like Sweden,where gender equality is vigorously pursued and enforced,have fewer female managers,executives,professionals,and business owners than eh laissez-faire(自由放任的)united states

If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children.

Why do people in wealthy countries prefer to have fewer children

Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.

True, stock prices fell a third from September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks

US gross domestic product has climbed back to pre-recession levels, meaning we're producing as much as before, only with 6% fewer workers.

His logic: companies that embrace automation might use fewer workers, but that's still better than firing everyone and moving the work overseas

Same goes for surgeons, who're using robotic systems to perform an ever-growing list of operations-not because the machines save money but because, thanks to the greater precision of robots, the patients recover in less time and have fewer complications, says Dr. Myriam Curet.

Providing fewer incentives (or saving

On crowded campuses it could mean fewer opportunities to get into a prized professor's class.

Typically, parents have fewer technological resources at their disposal than do schools.

The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.

And there seem to be fewer and fewer differences between the sexes.

It has fewer violent crimes than big cities

And insect farming also produces far fewer greenhouse gases.

As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor.

Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with kim.

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

So as a result, there are fewer listeners of Jazz, which is a great shame because it's an incredibly rich genre.

The more people are on their phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you're the only one left not reading email or checking Twitter.

The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

DET

少数;几个

You use a few to indicate that you are talking about a small number of people or things. You can also say a very few .

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ADJ

(用于形容词和限定词后)几个，少数的

You use few after adjectives and determiners to indicate that you are talking about a small number of things or people.

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DET

(前面可用 so，too，very 修饰)极少的,几乎没有

You use few to indicate that you are talking about a small number of people or things. You can use 'so', 'too', and 'very' in front of few .

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N-SING

(尤指享有某种机遇等的)少数派，少数

The few means a small set of people considered as separate from the majority, especially because they share a particular opportunity or quality that the others do not have.

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PHRASE

少至;仅有;少得只有

You use as few as before a number to suggest that it is surprisingly small.

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PHRASE

稀少的;罕见的

Things that are few and far between are very rare or do not happen very often.

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PHRASE

不少,相当多(a good few 主要用于英国英语)

You use not a few when you are referring to quite a lot of things or people. You can also use a good few in this way, mainly in British English.

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PHRASE

饮酒过度;喝多了

If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.

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PHRASE

不少于;不止

You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.

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英汉词典释义

pron.

(动词用复数)较少数

adj.

较少的

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of;