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few NOT MANYfjU:determiner, pronoun, n, adj-er, -est a small number, not many or not enough [used with countable nouns]很少，不足[用于可数名词]So few people attended the party that it was embarrassing.参加聚会的人如此之少，让人感到尴尬。He is among the very few people that I can trust with such information.他是我可以放心地告知这样的消息的为数不多的几个人之一。Politics, she said, was concerned with giving too few people too much power.政治，她说，关心的是给极少数的人以极大的权力。Very few (people) can afford to pay those prices for clothes.几乎没有人能付得起那样的价格买衣服。There are only a few days left before we leave for France.离我们去法国的日子没几天了。As a working mother she felt she had all the problems of motherhood with precious (=very) few of the benefits.作为一个上班母亲， 她觉得做母亲的烦恼她都有，可是得不到什么好处。There are few things in this world that give me more pleasure than a long bath.这个世界上没有比好好洗个澡更能让我高兴的了。Fewer people smoke these days than used to.现在吸烟的人比以前少了。As a country they have the fewest deaths through cancer in the whole of Europe.在整个欧洲，他们的国家里因癌症死亡的人数最少。The party was a disaster--not many people went and the few who did left early.这个晚会是个彻底的失败，没有多少人去，寥寥无几的参加者也早早地离开了。As few as 10% of people are happy with their jobs, according to a recent survey. [U]据最近的一次调查，仅仅10％的人对自己的工作感到满意。The benefits of this scheme are few, he said.他说这个计划几乎没有什么益处。Flats which are both comfortable and reasonably priced are few and far between (=there are not many).既舒适价格又合理的公寓很少。He was a man of few words, my father, but when he spoke it was worth listening to.我的父亲是个少言寡语的人，但他说话时是值得听听的。(fml) The conference was attended by no fewer than five hundred delegates (=it was surprising that that many people went).参加这次会议的代表多达5百人。"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" (Shakespeare, Henry V 3.1)“我们是少数的几个人，幸运的少数几个人，我们，是一支兄弟的队伍。”(选自莎士比亚的《亨利五世》'Few' is used with countable nouns.Few与可数名词连用 ☆ LITTLE
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