单词 | a good few |
释义 | a good fewa good few 1 a fairly large number of things or people 相当多,不少 She must have cooked a good few dinners over the years. 这些年她一定做过不少次晚餐。 quite a few/a good few/not a few of 只有少数例外。 There were hundreds of protesters, not a few of whom were women. 有几百名示威者,其中不少是女性。 → quite a few/a good few/not a few at few(1) 2 LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTa fairly large number of things or people 许多,大量 I’ve done this a good few times now. 这件事我到现在已经做了许多遍了。 A good many people were upset about the new tax. 许多人都对新的税项不满。 Examples from the Corpus a good few/many• In time she came to know a good many faces, but none of them were people.• She solved some problems, but she created a good few more-many of which Britain is still dealing with today.• We shared this house all the years of my childhood, and a good many summers afterward.• It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions.• It is likely that a good many valuable stones were destroyed in this way because Pliny was muddling up hardness and toughness.• There are a good many variables that may intervene in just this manner.• Overall, it took a good many years for the primaries to wrest control from the bosses.• It had been a good few years. → a good few/many at good1(6) |
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