首页英语词典littlelittle的意思

little

英 ['lɪt(ə)l] 美['lɪtl]

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近义词slight small tiny minimum fine wee miniature short puny scanty teeny minute mini

反义词

adj. 小的；很少的；短暂的；小巧可爱的
adv. 完全不
n. 少许；没有多少；短时间
n. (Little)人名；(英)利特尔

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词态变化

比较级: less;最高级: least;名词: littleness;

中文词源

little 小的

来自PIE*leud,弯，转，蜷缩，变小，词源同lout,little.引申词义弱小的，小人物的，后词义通用化。

英英释意

1. a small amount or duration;: "he accepted the little they gave him"

英文词源

little: little: [OE] Little goes back to the prehistoric West Germanic base *lut-, which also produced Dutch luttel and may have been the source of the Old English verb lūtan ‘bow down’. Some have detected a link with Old English lot ‘deceit’, Old Norse lýta ‘dishonour, blame’, Russian ludit’ ‘deceive’, and Serbo-Croat lud ‘foolish’.
little (adj.): Old English lytel "not large, not much; short in distance or time; unimportant," also used in late Old English as a noun, "small piece; a short time," from Proto-Germanic *lutilla- (cognates: Old Saxon luttil, Dutch luttel, Old High German luzzil, German lützel, Gothic leitils "little"), perhaps originally a diminutive of the root of Old English lyt "little, few," from PIE *leud- "small." "Often synonymous with small, but capable of emotional implications which small is not" [OED].

Phrase the little woman "wife" attested from 1795. Little people "the faeries" is from 1726; as "children," it is attested from 1752; as "ordinary people" (opposed to the great), it is attested from 1827. Little Neck clams (1884) are so called for Little Neck, Long Island, a "neck" of land on the island's North Shore. Little by little is from late 15c. (litylle be litille). Little green men "space aliens" is from 1950. Little black dress is from 1939.
At the beginning of summer, smart women who stay in town like to wear sheer "little black dresses." Because most "little black dresses" look alike, retailers struggle each year to find something which will make them seem new. ["Life," June 13, 1939]
Little Orphan Annie originally was (as Little Orphant Annie) the character in James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem, originally titled "Elf Child." The U.S. newspaper comic strip created by Harold Gray (1894-1968) debuted in 1924 in the New York "Daily News."
LITTLE Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;
An' all us other childern, when the supper-things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!

[Riley, "Elf Child"]
little (v.): OE lytlian, from root of little (adj.).

同义词辨析

little, small, tiny, minute, miniature

这些形容词均有"小的"之意。

little：指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小，多带主观感情色彩，含小而可爱或小巧的意味。

small：多指数量、面积、体积、价值、数字或意义等的小或少，指略小于正常的大小。

tiny：强调与同类或其他物体比较，小得超

出正常比例，有时带强烈的感情色彩。

minute：指小得难看见，有时需用显微镜才看得见。

miniature：指由正常体积微缩的物体。

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。

考试真题

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

They feel much less pain in the process.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic ( ' , 神经质的 ) than other people.

The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed, at the very least, the doer of the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

But what effect does your personality have on your longevity ( ' , 长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

But many tech home remedies can be explained by a little science.

We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

Service quality has little effect on tip size.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

At least, the American side of the falls.

Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

They get less sleep on public holidays.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon ( ' , 行话 ).

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

Her release from prison has drawn little attention.

Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey ( ' , 冰球 ) final.

Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

"One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.

"This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.

A 9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than $500 for her little brother who needs heart surgery in Houston,Texas this July.

A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

Addison witulski's grandmother kim Allred said Addison probably overheard a conversation between family members talking about the funds needed to get her little brother to treatment.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh airto ensure his dishes would not get col had fatally damaged his lungs.

I just draw little lines and nonsense really.

I was a little scared at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

I was hesitant because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

In fact, sometimes I draw a little, too.

In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.

I've got a little put aside for a rainy day, but I might need to earn a little more before we go.

James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized theories about how things work.

Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting directly infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper, and fruits are really good for the brain.

They sleep very deeply and need little or no food.

Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn't normally ever touch water, an airbus A0.

Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

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.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

It contributes little to the elimination of inequality.

Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

While yoga and meditation ( ' , 静思 ) are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

They slept six hours a night or less.

They have little responsibility for public health problems.

These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks ( ' , 骗术).

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

It has just grown up a little.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

And while you may forgive your smartphone an occasional fault, you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.

And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.

With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr.Williams's salary, professional standing, and educational background.

They tend to offer too many less challenging courses.

They may have to use less effective drugs.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum.

Overuse of less effective medicines.

Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

Charles, as a singer, do you ever make yourself cry when you sing? I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

And breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little cafe.

Another study also found eating a high-fat and high-sugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learning and memory similar to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.

But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little.

But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

Can you tell us a little about that?

Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed.

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

I was a little surprised to be invited, to be honest.

I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It's a little dry and salty.

Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other.

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets.

Next, Twenge's team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

So Frankie in both real life and in the TV show lives in New York city, is a comic, is divorced, and has two little daughters.

Sometimes a young child may get overexcited and be a little too rough, but it's never a serious matter.

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

That costume is often referred to as the most famous little black dress of all time.

The idea of one going in my mouth made me feel a little sick.

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

Anderson believed that the smarter a child is, the less likely he gets addicted to TV.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

As some psychologists put it, "It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

At least the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

Because there is less light pollution.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student.

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

Better still, let's meet in the Red Lion Bar to have a nice little talk.

Big ideas for little kids includes everything a teacher, a parent or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

Boldness can be gained little by little.

But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll.

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

But she kept urging us to have a look at least.

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

By the end of the first chapter, requests were coming from the back seat: "Please read a little louder."

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

Even though the conference hall is near his apartment, he has to hurry a little if he wants to be punctual.

From that day on, I grew bigger and a little more real.

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.

He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction.

He made a bad decision, they said—at least as it was presented by Shakespeare—to take the lead in murdering julius caesar.

He received little love from his family.

He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

Her little work experience in court.

Holden cared little where Judy was buried.

How different is our mean-spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little scrap of "understanding" that can be dug out of a book.

How is little Ed doing at the kindergarten, Jack?

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device on your desk.

I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride.

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

If you drop that, you begin to feel a little "dead" inside because you're "dropping" you.

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify those of greater and less importance.

If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you'll be less likely to bring your work home.

In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience.

In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful?

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.

It had little pieces of wood in different colors.

It is certainly fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal.

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little.

It just requires a little knowledge.

It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

Just as in a game of tug-of-war, whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

Let me explain a little about it.

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

Little did I know that I would discover my love for ASL.

Little kids and the elderly are the ones who have suffered the most from this extreme heat wave.

Little over 50% of all species would still exist.

Little people can make a big difference.

Little Tom sat amazed watching the monkey dancing in front of him.

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening.

Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was formerly alive.

My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

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.

We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal ( ' , fatherly) wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

That, at least, is the hope.

It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.

The challenge the computer mounts to television thus bears little similarity to one format being replaced by another in the manner of record players being replaced by CD players.

Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

They’ll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies—at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.

Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office –a respectable position, but wish little social status.

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for the process.

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

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.

Curriculums - from grammar school to college- should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for process.

But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

But—despite some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness.

For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on: and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initi

his father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay office—a respectable position, but with little social status.

In much of the world there is little sign of crisis.

Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots", concept as community sports associations.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

little more than a decade later, the share of imports was 25.8 percent.

little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

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.

So remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to the place they want to go, the things they like, the thing the hate—whatever you talk about.

The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.

Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.

visual recognition, reads the study, is "an automatic psychological process, occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation".

with them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.

You're only human, and sometimes your kids can push you just a little too far.

词组搭配

in little

(archaic)on a small scale; in miniature

(古)小规模的，微缩的

little or nothing

hardly anything

几乎没有

make little of

treat as unimportant

没当回事

they made little of their royal connection.
他们没把与王室的关系当回事儿。

no little

considerable

不小，很大

a factor of no little importance.
很重要的因素。

not a little

a great deal (of); much

不小，很多

not a little consternation was caused.
造成了不小的恐慌。

quite a little

a fairly large amount of

很多，大量

some spoke quite a little English.
有些人大讲英语。

quite the little —

used when condescendingly or ironically recognizing that someone has a particular quality or accomplishment

［用以表示不情愿地或讽刺地承认某人具备能力或取得了成就］的确，真正

you've become quite the little horsewoman.
你现在确实已成为女骑师了。

a little

Somewhat; a bit

一点儿

felt a little better.
感觉好了一点

little by little

By small degrees or increments; gradually.

逐渐地：慢慢地或逐渐增长地；渐渐地

实用场景例句

a little house: 小房子

a little group of tourists: 一小批游客

a little old lady: 一位小老太太

the classic little black dress: 经典式样的黑色小连衣裙

‘Which do you want? ’ ‘I'll take the little one. ’: “你要哪一个？”“我要那个小的。”

She gave a little laugh.: 她笑了一笑。

I had little money and little free time...: 我没什么钱，也没多少空闲时间。

I find that I need very little sleep these days...: 我发现最近我只需要睡很少时间。

On their way back to Marseille they spoke very little...: 返回马赛的路上，他们没怎么说话。

Only Africa is at present little affected by hard drugs.: 目前只有非洲没怎么受到硬毒品的影响。

Mrs Caan needs a little help getting her groceries home...: 卡安太太需要有人帮把手将食品杂货拿回家。

A little food would do us all some good...: 吃点东西，对我们大家都会有好处。

He walked a little by himself in the garden.: 他一个人在花园里散了一会儿步。

He complained a little of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades...: 他有几句提到说肩胛骨之间一直在疼。

He was a little bit afraid of his father's reaction...: 他有点害怕父亲的反应。

In the beginning he had felt well, but little by little he was becoming weaker...: 一开始他感觉很好，但慢慢地就变虚弱了。

I would have to learn, little by little, to exist alone.: 我得慢慢学会独自生活。

We sat around a little table, eating and drinking wine.: 我们围坐在一张小桌旁吃吃喝喝。

...the little group of art students.: 那一小群艺术专业的学生

She's got the nicest little house not far from the library.: 她有一幢非常漂亮的小房子，就在离图书馆不远处。

...a little old lady...: 身材娇小的老太太

I have a little boy of 8...: 我有一个8岁的小男孩。

When I was little I was very hyperactive.: 我小时候异常好动。

Whenever Daniel's little sister was asked to do something she always had a naughty reply.: 每次让丹尼尔的妹妹做什么事，她总是要淘气地回嘴。

Just go down the road a little way, turn left, and cross the bridge...: 沿这条路走一小段，向左转，然后过桥。

Why don't we just wait a little while and see what happens...: 为什么不再等一下看看事态的发展。

I had a little laugh to myself...: 我自顾自地笑了一下。

She stood up quickly, giving a little cry of astonishment...: 她迅速站了起来，惊叫了一声。

...irritating little habits...: 烦人的小毛病

Harry found himself getting angry over little things that had never bothered him before.: 哈里发现自己会因为小事而生气，而以前他从不会在意这些事情。