【little音标】 英[ˈlɪtl] 美[ˈlɪtl]
【单词释义】 little是什么意思：
adj.小的；琐碎的；娇小的；幼小的
adv.不多，略微；少许，一点；短时间地
n.（表示否定）微少；没有多少；短时间
det.（数量上）微少的，少到几乎没有的；(alittle)少量的，一些
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[比较级] less [最高级] least
【little形近词/近似词】
belittle vt.轻视；贬低；小看；不重视
brittle adj.易碎的；脆弱的
whittle n.屠刀 v.切，削（木头）；削弱；减少
【单词例句】
◇ Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next.
从前有个可爱的小姑娘，谁见了都喜欢，但最喜欢她的是她的奶奶，简直是她要甚么就给她甚么。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ They mounted so high, so very high, and the ugly little duckling became strangely uneasy.
他们飞得很高--那么高，丑小鸭不禁感到一种无名的兴奋。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets.
在寒冷和黑暗中，一个可怜的小女孩，光头赤脚仍在大街上徘徊。
◇ There was nothing really strange about seeing a rabbit.And Alice was not very surprised when the Rabbit said,'Oh dear!Oh dear!I shall be late!'(Perhaps it was a little strange, Alice thought later,but at the time she was not surprised.)
看到一只兔子真没有什么可奇怪的。兔子说话时爱丽丝居然也不觉得太奇怪。兔子说，“噢，天哪！噢，天哪！我要迟到了！”（后来爱丽丝想起这事觉得有点儿奇怪，但当时她并不觉得有什么奇怪。）
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ The Queen was making a coat for a little child. She said, "I want my child to be white as this cloth, white as the snow. And I shall call her Snow-white."
王后正在为小孩做一件上衣，她说:“我想我的孩子能够像这布一样白，想雪一样白，我要叫她'白雪公主'。”
---- Snow White
◇ The butterfly did not like to take too much trouble, so he flew off on a visit to the daisies. The French call this flower "Marguerite,"and they say that the little daisy can prophesy.
蝴蝶不愿意招来麻烦，因此就飞到雏菊那儿去。法国人把这种小花叫做“玛加丽特”（註：原文是“Margreth”，这个字是“雏菊”的意思；欧美有许多女子用这个字作为名字。）。他们知道，她能作出预言。
---- The Butterfly
◇ If I give birth to a little son, I will raise a white flag. If I give birth to a little daughter, I will raise a red flag, and then you should escape as fast as you can, and may God protect you.
如果我生下的是个小弟弟，我就升起一面白旗，你们就可以回来了。如果我生下的是个小妹妹，我就升起一面红旗，你们就赶紧远走高飞，愿上帝保佑你们。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ The next day, however, when the princess was sitting with the king and eating out of her own little golden plate, she heard a strange noise on the marble steps outside.
然而，第二天当公主和国王坐在一起，用她的小金盘吃东西时，她听到外面大理石台阶上传来奇怪的声音。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ A legend circulated throughout the land about the beautiful sleeping Little Brier-Rose, for so the princess was called.
于是，关于这个王国流传开了这样一个传说，一个漂亮的正在睡觉的玫瑰公主的传说，人们所说的玫瑰公主其实就是国王的女儿。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ "Ah! we shall soon see that!" thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom,took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead.
“是的，这点我们马上就可以考查出来。”老皇后心里想，可是她什么也没说。她走进卧房，把所有的被褥都搬开，在床榻上放了三粒豌豆。
---- The Real Princess