Few的用法解析以及相近的同義詞介紹

小檔案

英文原文

Few

中文翻譯

一些的、幾個的、一些、幾個

文法概念

代名詞形容詞限定詞

Few單字概述與用法:

few 是限定詞的一種,他有兩種詞性:

  • 不定數量形容詞:語意是一些的、幾個的,後面要接複數可數名詞。它的三級是few / fewer / fewest
  • 不定代名詞:當前面句子有名詞時,few後面相同的名詞可以省略,因為few可以當代名詞,語意一樣一些、幾個

注意:a few 強調有一些 / few卻強調沒幾個 / quite a few 就強調數量不少

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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
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目錄

Few的使用頻率

從Google Ngram Viewer的數據可以看到,自1800年到2019年的在的219年間,Few的使用頻率狀況,在2019年所出版的書籍中,每一百萬個字中,就會有354.1個字是Few。

Citation

  • Audio: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/Few
  • Word Frequency: Google Ngram Viewer

作者:Barshai Huang

在我教英文的20多年間,我常常發現許多學生在學習英文時,在單字的使用上,往往沒有充分且正確的資源,因此我整理了許多學習英文時常常會應用到的單子,並且針對用法、同義詞以及文法重點解析,希望能幫助到所有學習英文的人。

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