Little
['lɪt(ə)l] or ['lɪtl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a small amount or duration; 'he accepted the little they gave him'.
(adj.) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); 'a nice little job'; 'bless your little heart'; 'my dear little mother'; 'a sweet little deal'; 'I'm tired of your petty little schemes'; 'filthy little tricks'; 'what a nasty little situation' .
(adj.) (of a voice) faint; 'a little voice'; 'a still small voice' .
(adj.) lowercase; 'little a'; 'small a'; 'e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters' .
(adj.) (of children and animals) young, immature; 'what a big little boy you are'; 'small children' .
(adj.) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; 'little rain fell in May'; 'gave it little thought'; 'little time is left'; 'we still have little money'; 'a little hope remained'; 'there's slight chance that it will work'; 'there's a slight chance it will work' .
(adv.) not much; 'he talked little about his family'.
錄入:普勒斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
(a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
(a.) Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
(a.) Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.
(a.) Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
(a.) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
(n.) That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
(n.) A small degree or scale; miniature.
(adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.
丹尼校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Small (in size or extent), minute, diminutive, tiny, not great, not large.[2]. Small (in quantity, amount or duration), not much.[3]. Inconsiderable, petty, slight, slender, feeble, moderate, scanty.[4]. Mean, selfish, narrow, paltry, contemptible.
ad. Slightly, in a small degree, in some degree.
盖尔校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Pliant, flexible, limber, supple, elastic, agile, pliable
ANT:Tough, inflexible, inelastic, stiff
SYN:Small, tiny, pigmy, diminutive, short, brief, scanty, unimportant,insignificant, slight, weak, inconsiderable, trivial, illiberal, mean, petty,paltry, dirty, shabby, dwarf
ANT:Big, bulky, large, enormous, huge, monstrous, full-sized, long, full,developed, much, important, grave, serious, momentous, liberal, generous,noble, high-minded, handsome
校對:斯宾塞
解釋/意思:
adj. (comp. Less; superl. Least) small in quantity or extent: weak poor: brief.—n. that which is small in quantity or extent: a small space.—adv. in a small quantity or degree: not much.—ns. Litt′le-ease discomfort misery: a form of punishment as the stocks; Litt′le-end′ian one of the Lilliputian party who opposed the Big-endians maintaining that boiled eggs should be cracked at the little end; Litt′le-go (see Go); Litt′leness; Litt′le-off′ice a short service of psalms hymns collects &c.—adj. Litt′leworth worthless.—By little and little by degrees; In little on a small scale; Not a little considerably.
卡尔文校對
例句/造句/用法:
- How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And what do you call these little fellows, ma'am? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I am much better here,' said Little Dorrit, faintly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He tried to look knowing over the Latin grammar when little Rawdon showed him what part of that work he was in. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Yes, we went out to get a little air. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Again you find us, Miss Summerson, said he, using our little arts to polish, polish! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Our fair client seemed a little confused. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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