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🇺🇸 /lˈɪtʌl/

adj 编号: L01120 牛津3000 BNC #291 COCA #256

little主要表示“小的、少量的”或“年幼的”，也可作副词、代词和名词使用。

💡 记忆钩子

把little记成“尺寸小、数量少、年龄小”。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 小的

📖 表示尺寸、体积或规模较小。
common 微不足道的

📖 表示某事物不重要或不值得重视。
rare 小小的

📖 带冒犯性地称某人渺小、讨厌或不重要。

💡 带冒犯性。

offensive
common 年幼的

📖 表示处于童年或幼年时期。
common 年纪较小的

📖 表示年龄比另一个人小，尤其用于家庭成员。
rare 某地人聚居区的

📖 与地名连用，表示来自该地的人居住或经营商店的社区。

💡 通常首字母大写。

capitalized often
rare 带贬义的某地人聚居区

📖 与地名连用，贬义地指涉某地文化或居民形成的社区。

💡 通常首字母大写，带贬义。

capitalized derogatory often
common 成员少的

📖 表示群体中的成员数量较少。
rare 小规模运作的

📖 表示机构或活动以较小规模进行。

💡 常用于特定名称，通常首字母大写。

capitalized often
common 短暂的

📖 表示持续时间较短。
rare 心胸狭窄的

📖 表示观点、同情心或气度狭窄，含有刻薄或吝啬意味。

less comparative lesser comparative littler comparative least superlative littlest superlative

adv

common 不多

📖 表示程度、数量或差异很小。
common 完全不

📖 用于强调某人对事实完全不知道或没有意识到。

less comparative lesser comparative least superlative

det

core 少量的

📖 表示某种不可数事物只有少量。

💡 通常修饰不可数名词。

less comparative least superlative

name

rare 姓氏

📖 Little是英语中的一个姓氏。

countable uncountable
rare 肯塔基州社区

📖 Little是美国肯塔基州布雷西特县的一个非建制社区名称。

countable uncountable
rare 西弗吉尼亚州社区

📖 Little是美国西弗吉尼亚州泰勒县的一个非建制社区名称。

countable uncountable

Littles plural

noun

core 少量

📖 表示数量不多的某种事物。

💡 通常为不可数用法。

singular uncountable
common 幼儿

📖 非正式地指儿童，尤其是婴儿或年幼的孩子。

💡 可数用法，非正式。

countable informal
rare 初级角色成员

📖 在大学俚语中，指与高级成员配对的较年轻或初级角色成员。

💡 大学俚语。

countable
rare 幼态角色成员

📖 在特定性与生活方式语境中，指承担儿童化角色的成年人。

💡 属于特定社群用语。

countable
rare 考试

📖 是特定考试名称的省略说法。

💡 缩略语，具体含义依语境而定。

abbreviation alt-of countable ellipsis uncountable

littles plural

pron

common 少量

📖 代替少量的事物、行为或信息。

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 9 组

not much

同义词集: little

he talked little about his family

small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); ; ; ; ; ;

同义词集: little

a nice little job

bless your little heart

my dear little mother

a sweet little deal

I'm tired of your petty little schemes

filthy little tricks

what a nasty little situation

近似: emotional

(informal) small and of little importance; ; ; ; ; ; ;

同义词集: fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial

a fiddling sum of money

a footling gesture

our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war

a little (or small) matter

a dispute over niggling details

limited to petty enterprises

piffling efforts

giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

近似: unimportant

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; ; ;

同义词集: small little

a little dining room

a little house

a small car

a little (or small) group

反义: big, large 近似: atomic, bantam, bittie, bitty, diminutive, dinky, flyspeck, infinitesimal, insignificant, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, lesser, lilliputian, littler, micro, microscopic, microscopical, midget, miniature, miniscule, minuscule, minute, petite, pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable, puny, runty, shrimpy, slender, slim, small-scale, smaller, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weensy, weeny

(of a voice) faint;

同义词集: little small

a little voice

a still small voice

近似: soft

lowercase; ;

同义词集: little minuscule small

little a

small a

e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters

近似: lowercase

(of children and animals) young, immature;

同义词集: little small

what a big little boy you are

small children

近似: immature, young

low in stature; not tall; ; ;

同义词集: short little

he was short and stocky

short in stature

a short smokestack

a little man

反义: tall 近似: chunky, compact, dumpy, half-length, heavyset, low-set, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, squat, squatty, stocky, stumpy, thick, thickset 参见: low

a small amount or duration

同义词集: little

he accepted the little they gave him

🌳 词源

普通词义源自古英语，和表示弯曲、矮小的日耳曼语词根有关；专名义项来源不详。

From Middle English litel, litell, luitel, lutel, lutil, luytel, from Old English lȳtel, lyttel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil (“little”), from *lūtan (“to bow down, lout”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bow down, lout”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, crouch, duck”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognates Cognate with Yola lethel, litha, lithel, lythea (“little”), North Frisian letj (“little, small”), Saterland Frisian litje (“little, small”), West Frisian lyts (“little, small”), Dutch luttel (“few, little, mere”), German lütt, lützel (“little, small”), Low German lütt, lüttje (“little, small”), Danish liden, lille (“little, small”), Elfdalian litn (“small”), Faroese lítil (“little, small”), Icelandic lítill (“little, small”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish liten (“little, small”), Crimean Gothic lista (“insufficient, very little”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils, “little, small”); also Albanian lus, lut (“to beg, plead, request”), Lithuanian liūdnas (“sad, sorrowful”), Bulgarian and Macedonian луд (lud, “crazy, insane, mad”), Serbo-Croatian лу̑д, lȗd (“crazy”). Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”). More at lout.

🔄 变式

least superl less compar lesser compar littler compar Littles plural littlest superl

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