Fewer

(adj.) (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' .

录入:莱尔

• He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Every day fewer good. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• To this effect, in as few or fewer words, the Public Prosecutor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Italy has not as many telephones as San Francisco, and all Russia, fewer than Chicago. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have been carefully tried than with plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year, said Amy softly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Formica sanguinea, on the other hand, possesses much fewer slaves, and in the early part of the summer extremely few. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There are fewer abroad in the courts and gardens, though, said Thuvia. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The experiments are, therefore, sure to be watched with a great deal of interest, and it is probable that fewer accidents will occur from broken rails in the near future. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Do not crowd them, as the fewer the number together the better, and never have different ages together. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• That fewer still, in public affairs, act with a view to the good of mankind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I see you know how to profit by my advice, and you made fewer faces. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I went straight to Judy Trenor; she has fewer prejudices than the others, and besides she's always hated Bertha Dorset. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I am cheated in fewer things than you imagine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No fewer than six hundred wagons came clattering in, and as many as twenty sail vessels were loaded with thirty-five thousand bushels of grain, during a single day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He went to Rome himself, and saw the Pope again, but found that his friends were fewer and his enemies growing more powerful. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• By the great number of people who are maintained abroad, fewer are maintained at home. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Oh, yes; I have known him solve questions which presented fewer clues than yours. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Thus, we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under a few great orders and under still fewer classes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• They, too, found that many substances had each its own peculiar effect in the refraction and dispersion of light, and introduced no fewer than twenty-eight new substances in glass making. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But Harriet was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• A mixed force of no fewer than 10,000 men was scraped together, an enormous force for the time and country. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

录入:莱尔