wee

• adj. 极小的；很早的
• n. 一点点

来自weight的口语，来自短语a littel wei,即少量的，很小的。

1. a short time;

"bide a wee"

wee

wee: English has two words wee. The older, ‘small’ [OE], was originally a noun, Old English wēg or wēge. This meant ‘weight’, and is closely related to English weigh. Its use in contexts such as a little wee, literally ‘a small weight’, meant that by the 13th century it had shifted semantically to ‘small amount’, but it did not become an adjective until the 15th century. Weeny was derived from it in the 18th century. Wee ‘urine, urinate’ [20] and its reduplication wee-wee [20] are nursery words, and no doubt originated in some sort of fanciful imitation of the sound of urinating.
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wee (adj.)

"extremely small," mid-15c., from earlier noun use in sense of "quantity, amount" (such as a littel wei "a little thing or amount," c. 1300), from Old English wæge "weight" (see weigh). Adjectival use wee bit apparently developed as parallel to such forms as a bit thing "a little thing." Wee hours is attested by 1891, from Scottish phrase wee sma' hours (1819). Wee folk "faeries" is recorded from 1819. Weeny "tiny, small" is from 1790.

One mother said that before her daughter was involved in this project, she would not even pour a weed.

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They also took terms in watering, weeding and maintaining the plot.

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a wee girl

娇小的女孩

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Just a wee drop of milk for me.

给我一丁点儿奶就行。

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I felt a wee bit guilty about it.

我对此觉得有点儿愧疚。

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to do/have a wee

尿尿

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a puddle of wee

一摊尿

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Do you need to wee?

你要撒尿吗？

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I've got a wee kitten in the flat...

我在公寓里养了一只小猫。

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He just needs to calm down a wee bit.

他只是需要稍微冷静一下。

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He said he wanted to wee.

他说他要撒尿。

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I was just meant to come out here and inoculate some wee babies.

我是过来这边给小孩子们接种疫苗的.

电影对白

A frog should have just a wee bit of a paunch, like the Baron de Charlus.

一个法国佬应该有个微微腆起的大肚子, 像查露斯男爵那样.

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Not quite frequently? He said you hold the party every weekend late into the wee hours.

还不频繁? 人家说你每周末都在开晚会,持续到凌晨一两点.

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Wee have confidence in college students of this sort.

这样的大学生,我们信得过.

辞典例句

When Noot got home , Wee talked to him about a divorce.

但Noodee拒绝了.

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Party till the wee hours of the morning at Singapore's premier clubbing zone , Mohamed Sultan Road.

在新加坡最著名的酒吧街-穆罕默德苏丹路狂欢到隔天凌晨.

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Both rivals campaigned well into the wee hours Tuesday.

两个竞争对手一直竞选到周二凌晨1、2点钟.

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She is a winsome wee thing.

她是一个媚人的小东西.

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At first Wee thought he was going alone, but when she reached Japan, Orn calls.

起先Wee认为他要一个人去, 但当她到达日本后, 她接到了Orn的电话.

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There wee so many formulas in mathematics class that they were hard for me to remember.

数学课公式太多了,我很难记得住.

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Noot then finds out that Wee is going to Japan and is very angry.

Wee打电话给她老板,说她也要去日本.

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Wee allows it and walks away.

Wee答应了并马上走开.

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As you can see, in some ways wee looked like.

正如你看见的, 在一些方面我们看起来很像.

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I lay awake through the wee small hours, waiting for the signal.

我躺到后半夜没睡, 等候信号.

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Mummy, I need a wee.

妈妈, 我要撒尿.

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The agreement was signed in the wee hours of August 4.

协议是在八月四日凌晨签署的.

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She is a handsome wee thing.

她是一个漂亮的小东西.

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If I wee you, I'd think twice about it.

如果我是你我会三思而后行.

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