Few的用法解析以及相近的同義詞介紹

形容詞：一些的、幾個的

常見搭配詞：

• few words
  沈默寡言
• few years
  沒幾年
• very few
  幾乎沒有幾個的
• a few
  有一些的
• quite a few / a good few / not a few
  還蠻多的
• the few / somebody’s few + 複數名詞
  少數的那幾個 / 某人僅有的…
• as few as 3 out of 20 +複數名詞
  竟少到只有二十分之三個…
• be few and far between
  非常少

例句：

1. I have very few friends.
   我幾乎沒有什麼朋友
2. She bought a few things from the market.
   她在市場買了一些東西
3. I saw quite a few teenagers in the pub.
   在那個酒吧裡，我看到蠻多青少年的
4. When I was little, few children went to kindergarten.
   我小時候，幾乎沒幾個小孩上幼稚園
5. He is a man of few words.
   他是個沈默寡言的人
6. He has no fewer than two hundred students.
   他有不少於兩百個學生
7. Few people want low-paid jobs.
   沒什麼人要低薪的工作
8. He was one of the few people that survived the fire.
   他是那場火災中，少數的幾個生還者之一
9. As few as 3 students failed the test.
   僅僅只有三個人考試不及格
10. Due to the pandemic, tourists are few and far between.
    因為疫情，遊客非常少(鳳毛麟角)
11. Fewer people work from home these days.
    最近較少人在家上班
12. We get fewer complaints than usual.
    我們接到比平常還少的投訴

同義詞：

• not many = a few
• hardly any = few
• some =quite a few

代名詞：一些、幾個

常見搭配詞：

• few / a few
  幾乎沒有 / 有一些
• quite a few
  還蠻多
• a few of + the (所有格、these / those) + 複數名詞
  一些…
• few / a few of them (受格)
  …之中沒幾個 / 有一些
• the privileged / chosen few
  有特權的 / 精選出的極少數人
• the few
  少數的那些
• to name just a few
  僅舉幾個例子

例句：

1. She have got a lot of books, but I just have a few.
   她有很多書，但我只有幾本
2. He gave me a few of his clothes.
   他給我一些他的衣服
3. Only the chosen few have access to such information.
   只有那些少之又少的特權人士才能得到這樣的訊息
4. In recent years, extreme weather events have occurred frequently, including floods in China, heatwaves in Canada, and draughts in Africa, to name just a few.
   最近幾年來，極端氣候事件頻繁發生，中國的水災、加拿大的熱浪、還有非洲乾旱，栗子繁多，舉不勝舉
5. The police arrested hundreds of demonstrators, not a few of whom were teenagers.
   警察逮捕了數百個示威人士，其中，有為數不少的青少年
6. I think a good few of the others were disappointed.
   我覺得有不少人都很失望

同義詞：

• not many = a few
• hardly any = few
• some =quite a few