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基本释义

pron.
(动词用复数)较少数
adj.
较少的; 不多的( few的比较级 ); 很少; (与复数名词和复数动词连用)有些; 几个

实用例句

Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers are accepted as political refugees.

寻求避难者中有不到7%的人被视作政治难民。

柯林斯例句

The report shows that fewer couples are getting hitched.

报告显示,结婚的人数呈下降趋势。

柯林斯例句

Childbirth now held fewer terrors for her than it once had.

她现在不像原来那样害怕分娩了。

柯林斯例句

Fewer than a thousand giant pandas still live in the wild.

只有不到1,000只大熊猫仍然在野外生活。

柯林斯例句

Yesterday no fewer than thirty climbers reached the summit.

昨天至少30名攀登者登上了顶峰。

柯林斯例句

The detective discovered no fewer than 35 fingerprints.

那位侦探发现了至少35个指纹。

柯林斯例句

Fewer and fewer people are in work.

就业人数越来越少。

柯林斯例句

The fewer things in the room the better.

房间里的东西越少越好。

柯林斯例句

We need fewer organizers and more doers.

我们需要的是少些组织者,多些实干者。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Fewer people write with their left hand than with their right.

用左手写字的人比用右手的人少。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

He was advised to smoke fewer cigarettes and drink less beer.

有人劝他少抽烟、少喝啤酒。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Honest politicians cannot be bought, but they are becoming fewer.

诚实的政治家不能为金钱所动, 但这样的人却日益稀少.

《简明英汉词典》

Better living conditions mean more live births and fewer stillbirths.

生活条件改善就会有较多的活产,较少的死产.

《简明英汉词典》

Most people have speech, but significantly fewer have writing.

大多数人都能说, 但能写的人就少多了.

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No fewer than 10 students were absent through illness.

因病而缺课的学生不下十名.

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真题例句

And there are environmental benefits, too: renting a car when you need it, rather than owning one, means fewer cars are required and fewer resources must be devoted to making them.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Choose food with fewer calories.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Small Schools Rising This year's list of the top 100 high schools shows that today, those with fewer students are flourishing.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Nearly 250 schools on the full ,Newsweek list of the top 5% of schools nationally had fewer than 200 graduates in 2007.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

While elderly people tend to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a(n) negative effect on their brain's performance and they would benefit from getting more, according to research.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

As part of the Kids Live Well campaign-expected to be announced nationwide Wednesday—participating restaurants must promise to offer at least one children's meal that has fewer than 600 calories(卡路里), no soft drinks and at least two items from the following food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins or low-fat dairy.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Among other requirements, they must offer a side dish that meets similar criteria, with fewer than 200 calories and less than 35%of its calories from sugar

出自-2012年12月听力原文

They may have fewer job opportunities.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

They will make fewer mistakes than human drivers do.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Though the United States has fewer women in the workforce(68percent compared to Sweden's 77 percent).

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

How can it be that societies like Sweden,where gender equality is vigorously pursued and enforced,have fewer female managers,executives,professionals,and business owners than eh laissez-faire(自由放任的)united states

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Why do people in wealthy countries prefer to have fewer children

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

True, stock prices fell a third from September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

US gross domestic product has climbed back to pre-recession levels, meaning we're producing as much as before, only with 6% fewer workers.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

His logic: companies that embrace automation might use fewer workers, but that's still better than firing everyone and moving the work overseas

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Same goes for surgeons, who're using robotic systems to perform an ever-growing list of operations-not because the machines save money but because, thanks to the greater precision of robots, the patients recover in less time and have fewer complications, says Dr. Myriam Curet.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Providing fewer incentives (or saving

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

On crowded campuses it could mean fewer opportunities to get into a prized professor's class.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Typically, parents have fewer technological resources at their disposal than do schools.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

And there seem to be fewer and fewer differences between the sexes.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

It has fewer violent crimes than big cities

出自-2011年6月听力原文

And insect farming also produces far fewer greenhouse gases.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with kim.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

So as a result, there are fewer listeners of Jazz, which is a great shame because it's an incredibly rich genre.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The more people are on their phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you're the only one left not reading email or checking Twitter.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

But one difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

Fewer emissions and cheaper travel sound pretty appealing.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Human development results in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those who rush through their meals.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

People's lifestyles are reflected in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The convenience even leads fewer people to take public transport——an unwelcome side effect researchers have already found in ride- hailing services.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They went farther north into the deep forests of Canada, where there were fewer humans around.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Those opportunities are now fewer and farther between.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As fewer such workers enter the country, the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Even in the event of a fine, fewer trees are consumed.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In effect, fewer federal funds today are going towards the agency's other work—such as forest conservation, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep—that affect the lives of all Americans.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

People will not get fewer ads, he says.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

She found that mothers who used devices during the exercise started 20 percent fewer verbal and 39 percent fewer nonverbal interactions with their children.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of;

    "fewer birds came this year"

    "the birds are fewer this year"

    "fewer trains were late"

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