Few

(noun.) a small elite group; 'it was designed for the discriminating few'.

(adj.) 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' .

杰弗里整理

• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Of the species which do change, only a few within the same country change at the same time; and all modifications are slowly effected. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We can here consider only a few cases; of these, some of the most difficult to explain are presented by fish. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Rawdon acquiesced in the justice of her opinion; and in truth he had remarked that after a few nights of his little suppers, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Every day fewer good. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• To this effect, in as few or fewer words, the Public Prosecutor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Italy has not as many telephones as San Francisco, and all Russia, fewer than Chicago. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have been carefully tried than with plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal accident must have happened to her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The evening of life is described by Plato in the most expressive manner, yet with the fewest possible touches. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The disclosure of the conspiracy followed, after I had offered my preliminary explanation, first of all, in the fewest and the plainest words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Let me state, then, in the fewest possible words, that Rachel Verinder had nothing but a life-interest in the property. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I chose it in the far east of London, where there were fewest idle people to lounge and look about them in the streets. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• With its mechanism reduced to the fewest and simplest parts, the whole machine weighs only six pounds, and it differs in many respects from the ordinary typewriter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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