little

高中CET4CET6

英[?l?tl]
美[?l?tl]

基本釋義

det.
少量的; 不多的
pron.
少量的; 不多的
adv.
微小地; 一點(diǎn)地
adj.
小的; 可愛(ài)的; 年幼的; 短的; 不嚴(yán)重的

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

a little house

小房子

牛津詞典

a little group of tourists

一小批游客

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a little old lady

一位小老太太

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the classic little black dress

經(jīng)典式樣的黑色小連衣裙

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‘Which do you want? ’ ‘I'll take the little one. ’

“你要哪一個(gè)?”“我要那個(gè)小的?!?/p>

牛津詞典

She gave a little laugh.

她笑了一笑。

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I had little money and little free time...

我沒(méi)什么錢,也沒(méi)多少空閑時(shí)間。

I find that I need very little sleep these days...

我發(fā)現(xiàn)最近我只需要睡很少時(shí)間。

On their way back to Marseille they spoke very little...

返回馬賽的路上,他們沒(méi)怎么說(shuō)話。

Only Africa is at present little affected by hard drugs.

目前只有非洲沒(méi)怎么受到硬毒品的影響。

Mrs Caan needs a little help getting her groceries home...

卡安太太需要有人幫把手將食品雜貨拿回家。

A little food would do us all some good...

吃點(diǎn)東西,對(duì)我們大家都會(huì)有好處。

He walked a little by himself in the garden.

他一個(gè)人在花園里散了一會(huì)兒步。

He complained a little of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades...

他有幾句提到說(shuō)肩胛骨之間一直在疼。

He was a little bit afraid of his father's reaction...

他有點(diǎn)害怕父親的反應(yīng)。

In the beginning he had felt well, but little by little he was becoming weaker...

一開(kāi)始他感覺(jué)很好,但慢慢地就變虛弱了。

I would have to learn, little by little, to exist alone.

我得慢慢學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)自生活。

We sat around a little table, eating and drinking wine.

我們圍坐在一張小桌旁吃吃喝喝。

...the little group of art students.

那一小群藝術(shù)專業(yè)的學(xué)生

She's got the nicest little house not far from the library.

她有一幢非常漂亮的小房子,就在離圖書(shū)館不遠(yuǎn)處。

...a little old lady...

身材嬌小的老太太

I have a little boy of 8...

我有一個(gè)8歲的小男孩。

When I was little I was very hyperactive.

我小時(shí)候異常好動(dòng)。

Whenever Daniel's little sister was asked to do something she always had a naughty reply.

每次讓丹尼爾的妹妹做什么事,她總是要淘氣地回嘴。

Just go down the road a little way, turn left, and cross the bridge...

沿這條路走一小段,向左轉(zhuǎn),然后過(guò)橋。

Why don't we just wait a little while and see what happens...

為什么不再等一下看看事態(tài)的發(fā)展。

I had a little laugh to myself...

我自顧自地笑了一下。

She stood up quickly, giving a little cry of astonishment...

她迅速站了起來(lái),驚叫了一聲。

...irritating little habits...

煩人的小毛病

Harry found himself getting angry over little things that had never bothered him before.

哈里發(fā)現(xiàn)自己會(huì)因?yàn)樾∈露鷼?,而以前他從不?huì)在意這些事情。

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They feel much less pain in the process.

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This is Aesop, the fabulist , the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

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The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

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The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

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I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

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Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed, at the very least, the doer of the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.

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But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

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An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living than in a nursing home.

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The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

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In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

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I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to?communicate decently.

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But many tech home ? remedies can be explained by a little science.

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We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

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The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

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The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

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That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

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Service quality has little effect on tip size.

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Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

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People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

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Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger.

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A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

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At least, the American ?side of the falls.

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Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

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You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

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Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

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They get less sleep on public holidays.

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They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

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The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

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Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

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She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon .

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In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

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Her release from prison has drawn little attention.

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Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

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At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

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"One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.

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"This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.

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A 9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than $500 for her little brother who needs heart surgery in Houston,Texas this July.

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A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

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Addison witulski's grandmother kim Allred said Addison probably overheard a conversation between family members talking about the funds needed to get her little brother to treatment.

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Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh airto ensure his dishes would not get col had fatally damaged his lungs.

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I just draw little lines and nonsense really.

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I was a little scared at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

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I was hesitant because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before.

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If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

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In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

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In fact, sometimes I draw a little, too.

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In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.

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I've got a little put aside for a rainy day, but I might need to earn a little more before we go.

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James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

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like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized?theories about how things work.

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Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting directly infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said.

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That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

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The boat, traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

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The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper, and fruits are really good for the brain.

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They sleep very deeply and need little or no food.

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Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn't normally ever touch water, an airbus A0.

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Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

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While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

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deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

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Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

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Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

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Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

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The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

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The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

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The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

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Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

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Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

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Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

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Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

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Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

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Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

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Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

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Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

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Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

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But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

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71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

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We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

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That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

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Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

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Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

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Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

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It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

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It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

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It contributes little to the elimination of inequality.

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Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

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Clickthrough rates have been high so far , but that may be a result of the novelty.

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But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

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Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented , and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

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While yoga and meditation are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

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Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

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They slept six hours a night or less.

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They have little responsibility for public health problems.

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These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

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There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

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The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

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The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

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Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

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Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

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Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

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Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.

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No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks .

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Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

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It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

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It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

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It has just grown up a little.

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If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

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At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

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And while you may forgive your smartphone an occasional fault, you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.

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And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

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Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

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The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

出自-2016年12月聽(tīng)力原文

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

出自-2016年12月聽(tīng)力原文

In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.

出自-2016年12月聽(tīng)力原文

With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr.Williams's salary, professional standing, and educational background.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

They tend to offer too many less challenging courses.

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They may have to use less effective drugs.

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The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

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Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

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So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum.

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Overuse of less effective medicines.

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Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

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But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

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As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

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Charles, as a singer, do you ever make yourself cry when you sing? I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

出自-2015年12月聽(tīng)力原文

And breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little cafe.

2016年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Another study also found eating a high-fat and high-sugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learning and memory similar to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

2017年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section B

Can you tell us a little about that?

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

2015年12月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

I was a little surprised to be invited, to be honest.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

2015年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

2016年12月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

2016年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It's a little dry and salty.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

2016年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Next, Twenge's team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks.

2016年12月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

2017年6月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

So Frankie in both real life and in the TV show lives in New York city, is a comic, is divorced, and has two little daughters.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Sometimes a young child may get overexcited and be a little too rough, but it's never a serious matter.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

That costume is often referred to as the most famous little black dress of all time.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

The idea of one going in my mouth made me feel a little sick.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section B

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

2014年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 七選五 選項(xiàng)

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

2014年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設(shè)

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 語(yǔ)法填空 A 原文

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(11月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 聽(tīng)力 原文

Anderson believed that the smarter a child is, the less likely he gets addicted to TV.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設(shè)

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 聽(tīng)力 原文

Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項(xiàng)

Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

As some psychologists put it, "It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

At least the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 聽(tīng)力 原文

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 聽(tīng)力 原文

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 選項(xiàng)

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Because there is less light pollution.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項(xiàng)

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Better still, let's meet in the Red Lion Bar to have a nice little talk.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 聽(tīng)力 原文

Big ideas for little kids includes everything a teacher, a parent or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Boldness can be gained little by little.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項(xiàng)

But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

But she kept urging us to have a look at least.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 完形填空 原文

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 完形填空 原文

By the end of the first chapter, requests were coming from the back seat: "Please read a little louder."

2016年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 完形填空 原文

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (難為情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 完形填空 原文

Even though the conference hall is near his apartment, he has to hurry a little if he wants to be punctual.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖北卷 單項(xiàng)選擇 原文

From that day on, I grew bigger and a little more real.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 完形填空 原文

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

He made a bad decision, they said—at least as it was presented by Shakespeare—to take the lead in murdering julius caesar.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

He received little love from his family.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項(xiàng)

He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文

Her little work experience in court.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項(xiàng)

Holden cared little where Judy was buried.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項(xiàng)

How different is our mean-spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little scrap of "understanding" that can be dug out of a book.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

How is little Ed doing at the kindergarten, Jack?

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 聽(tīng)力 原文

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設(shè)

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀表達(dá) 原文

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device on your desk.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 完形填空 原文

I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(11月) 聽(tīng)力 原文

I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 完形填空 原文

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

If you drop that, you begin to feel a little "dead" inside because you're "dropping" you.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify those of greater and less importance.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you'll be less likely to bring your work home.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 完形填空 原文

Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful?

2017年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(11月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

It had little pieces of wood in different colors.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項(xiàng)

It is certainly fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項(xiàng)

It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 語(yǔ)法填空 B 原文

It just requires a little knowledge.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 完形填空 原文

It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Just as in a game of tug-of-war, whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

Let me explain a little about it.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 聽(tīng)力 原文

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Little did I know that I would discover my love for ASL.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 完形填空 原文

Little kids and the elderly are the ones who have suffered the most from this extreme heat wave.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 聽(tīng)力 原文

Little over 50% of all species would still exist.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項(xiàng)

Little people can make a big difference.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項(xiàng)

Little Tom sat amazed watching the monkey dancing in front of him.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 單項(xiàng)填空 原文

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 語(yǔ)法填空 原文

Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was formerly alive.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 單項(xiàng)填空 原文

My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

出自-2009年考研翻譯原文

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

出自-2009年考研翻譯原文

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

出自-2010年考研翻譯原文

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

That, at least, is the hope.

出自-2012年考研翻譯原文

It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.

出自-2012年考研翻譯原文

The challenge the computer mounts to television thus bears little similarity to one format being replaced by another in the manner of record players being replaced by CD players.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

They’ll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies—at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office –a respectable position, but wish little social status.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for the process.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

出自-2018年考研翻譯原文

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

Curriculums - from grammar school to college- should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

2016年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

2020年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for process.

2017年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of

2011年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

2012年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But—despite some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness.

2011年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on: and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initi

2010年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

his father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay office—a respectable position, but with little social status.

2017年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In much of the world there is little sign of crisis.

2011年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots", concept as community sports associations.

2017年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

2010年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

little more than a decade later, the share of imports was 25.8 percent.

2019年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

2012年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

2020年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

2014年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

2015年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

2019年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating.

2013年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

So remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to the place they want to go, the things they like, the thing the hate—whatever you talk about.

2018年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.

2020年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.

2016年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.

2019年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

visual recognition, reads the study, is "an automatic psychological process, occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation".

2014年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

with them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.

2013年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

You're only human, and sometimes your kids can push you just a little too far.

2020年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a small amount or duration;

    "he accepted the little they gave him"

Adjective
  • 1. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

    "a little dining room"

    "a little house"

    "a small car"

    "a little (or small) group"

    "a small voice"

  • 2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some;

    "little rain fell in May"

    "gave it little thought"

    "little hope remained"

    "little time is left"

    "we still have little money"

    "a little hope remained"

    "a little time is left"

  • 3. of short duration or distance;

    "a brief stay in the country"

    "in a little while"

    "it's a little way away"

  • 4. not fully grown;

    "what a big little boy you are"

    "small children"

  • 5. (informal terms) small and of little importance;

    "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"

    "Mickey Mouse regulations"

    "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"

  • 6. (of a voice) faint;

    "a little voice"

    "a still small voice"

  • 7. younger brother or sister;

    "little brother"

  • 8. lowercase;

    "little a"

    "small a"

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

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

    "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"

Adverb
  • 1. not much;

    "he talked little about his family"

同義詞辨析

little, small, tiny, minute, miniature

這些形容詞均有"小的"之意。

  • little: 指在體積、數(shù)量、距離、年齡、身材等方面比正常的小,多帶主觀感情色彩,含小而可愛(ài)或小巧的意味。
  • small: 多指數(shù)量、面積、體積、價(jià)值、數(shù)字或意義等的小或少,指略小于正常的大小。
  • tiny: 強(qiáng)調(diào)與同類或其他物體比較,小得超
  • 出正常比例,有時(shí)帶強(qiáng)烈的感情色彩。
  • minute: 指小得難看見(jiàn),有時(shí)需用顯微鏡才看得見(jiàn)。
  • miniature: 指由正常體積微縮的物體。

little, few, several

這幾個(gè)詞用作形容詞時(shí)均含"少量的"之意。

  • little: 只修飾不可數(shù)名詞,含否定意義。
  • few: 只修飾可數(shù)名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式,側(cè)重指數(shù)量非常少,給人一種模糊概念,含否定意義。
  • several: 修飾可數(shù)名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式,指至少有3個(gè),但不會(huì)超過(guò)5、6個(gè)。

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