【few音标】 英[fju:] 美[fju]
【单词释义】 few是什么意思：
adj.很少的；很少；（与复数名词和复数动词连用）有些；几乎没有的
pron.很少；有些（人、事物、地方）；（与复数动词连用）少数人；不和…一般多
n.很少数
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[比较级] fewer [最高级] fewest
【few形近词/近似词】
sew v.缝；缝补；缝纫
chew n.咀嚼；口香糖；咀嚼物 v.咀嚼，嚼碎；不停地嚼，咬
renew v.重新开始；更新；恢复
dew n.水珠，露水
new adj.新的；新鲜的
【单词例句】
◇ After a few cuts he saw the red cap shining through, and after a few more cuts the girl jumped out, crying, "Oh, I was so frightened! It was so dark inside the wolf's body!"
他刚剪了两下，就看到了红色的小帽子。他又剪了两下，小姑娘便跳了出来，叫道：“真把我吓坏了！狼肚子里黑漆漆的。”
---- Little Red Cap
◇ And she was.A few minutes later she was only twenty-five centimetres high.'And now,'she said happily,'I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden.'
她是在变校几分钟后她只有25厘米高了。“现在，”她高兴地说，“我能穿过那扇小门去花园里了。”
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ In Sweden, one study found as few as one in 10 people practice the best brushing technique. The British health insurer Bupa found that almost half of respondents did not know how to brush their teeth properly in a survey of 2,000 people in the UK.
瑞典的一项研究发现，只有十分之一的人掌握了最佳的刷牙技巧。英国健康保险公司Bupa在一项涵盖了2000名英国人的调查中发现，近半数受访者不知道如何正确刷牙。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ After they had lived a few years happily together, the king's mother, who was a wicked woman, began to slander the young queen.
他们一起幸福地生活了好几年。国王的母亲是个邪恶的女人，开始说新王后的坏话了。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ The tracks were muddy. The river was drying up. Most villagers only possessed one broom, a few tins and several jars and their rectangular grass huts with round angles were surrounded by weeds.
泥泞的道路、河流干枯，大部分的村民拥有的财产只不过是一只扫帚、几个瓶瓶罐罐而已，圆角的矩形草屋四周长满了杂草。
---- Helping the Remote Village
◇ Few were bored watching his moustache, his gestures or his entertaining reactions when chased by detectives.
看见他可笑的小胡子、滑稽的手势动作，还有面对警探的追捕时有趣的反应，很少有人会觉得厌烦。
---- Chaplin - A Great Master of Humour
◇ Wang Peng earned his living by running a barbecue restaurant, which served delicious bacon, fried chicken breast and mutton roasted with pepper and garlic. But his food and discount attracted fewer and fewer customers. Finally, he was in debt.
王鹏经营一家烧烤餐厅来谋生，他的餐厅供应美味的腊肉、油炸的鸡胸，还有用辣椒和大蒜一起烤制的羊肉。但是，他的食物和折扣吸引的顾客越来越少，最后是他负债累累。
---- Balanced Diet
◇ Fewer people are smoking worldwide, especially women, but only one country in eight is on track to meet a target of reducing tobacco use significantly by 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
世界卫生组织本周四（2018年5月31日）表示，全球吸烟人数特别是女性吸烟者在减少，但仅有八分之一的国家有望在2025年前实现大规模减少烟草使用的目标。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ In America, however, few people use the phrase "going off to university," or "headed to university," even if they are indeed about to set off for, say, Harvard University.
然而，在美国，很少有人用university来泛指“大学”，即使他们上的是哈佛大学。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ According to Dictionary.com, fall isn't a modern nickname that followed the more traditional autumn. The two terms are actually first recorded within a few hundred years of each other.
根据词典网站Dictionary.com，fall并不是秋天的传统说法autumn的现代别称。这两个说法最早的记录相距时间不到几百年。