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(A)few与(A)little的使用
few, a few, little, a little 虽然都表示“少”,但使用时有所区别 一: few与a few
1.Few a few修饰可数名词复数。
2.few (= not many; hardly any)含否定意义,极少、几乎没有。 a few (= some; a small number of) 含肯定意义,有几个,有一些。 He has a few friends. 他有几个朋友。 He has few friends. 他几乎没有朋友。
3. not a few = no few = quite a few = a good few = many。
4.当 few受 every, last, past, next, some, very等词所修饰时,表示肯定意义,few之前不再有冠词。如:
In the last few minutes, he checked up his paper again. It took us some few days to repair the machine. They are very few in number. There were too few of them.
He goes to see his grandma every few weeks.
5.在非正式文体中很少见,一般用或代替,如: Only a few people attended the meeting. 二、little 与a little
1. little 与a little 修饰不可数名字。
2. Little含否定意义(反义词:much);极少、几乎没有。 A little含肯定意义(反义词:none),有一点、有一些。
We still have a little time. 我们还有点时间。 There is little time left.几乎没剩下什么时间了。
3. 在非正式英语中,一般很少用little,常用not much, only a little来代替,如: We haven’t got much money / time
4. a little 与 little 也可以用作副词, 表示“有点”“稍稍” 表示“很少
e.g. ----Can you speak English?
----Yes, but only a little.
This book is a little more difficult than that one. ( 修饰比较级)
三、归纳
不带 a 的little和few 含有否定意义,表示数量很少或几乎没有,强调“少”;带有a 的little和few含有肯定意义,表示数量虽然少但毕竟还有,强调“有”。
Few people like such things. 没什么人喜欢那样的东西。 A few people like such things. 有少数人喜欢那样的东西。 He knows little English. 他乎不懂英语。 He knows a little English. 他懂一点点英语。
注意,当few前不带 a,但带有the, some these, those等修饰语时,也表示肯定意义。如:
Some few have already left. 有几个已经离开了。
The last few winters have been very cold.过去几个冬天都很冷。 The first few chapters are about his early days.前几章谈他的少年时期。
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