Fewer
['fjuːə] or ['fjʊɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; 'fewer birds came this year'; 'the birds are fewer this year'; 'fewer trains were late' .
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例句/造句/用法:
- He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. 威爾基·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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Every day fewer good. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- To this effect, in as few or fewer words, the Public Prosecutor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Italy has not as many telephones as San Francisco, and all Russia, fewer than Chicago. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have been carefully tried than with plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year, said Amy softly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Formica sanguinea, on the other hand, possesses much fewer slaves, and in the early part of the summer extremely few. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There are fewer abroad in the courts and gardens, though, said Thuvia. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The experiments are, therefore, sure to be watched with a great deal of interest, and it is probable that fewer accidents will occur from broken rails in the near future. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Do not crowd them, as the fewer the number together the better, and never have different ages together. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- That fewer still, in public affairs, act with a view to the good of mankind. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I see you know how to profit by my advice, and you made fewer faces. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I went straight to Judy Trenor; she has fewer prejudices than the others, and besides she's always hated Bertha Dorset. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I am cheated in fewer things than you imagine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- No fewer than six hundred wagons came clattering in, and as many as twenty sail vessels were loaded with thirty-five thousand bushels of grain, during a single day. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He went to Rome himself, and saw the Pope again, but found that his friends were fewer and his enemies growing more powerful. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- By the great number of people who are maintained abroad, fewer are maintained at home. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Oh, yes; I have known him solve questions which presented fewer clues than yours. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Thus, we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under a few great orders and under still fewer classes. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They, too, found that many substances had each its own peculiar effect in the refraction and dispersion of light, and introduced no fewer than twenty-eight new substances in glass making. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But Harriet was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A mixed force of no fewer than 10,000 men was scraped together, an enormous force for the time and country. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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