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little
时间: 2024-04-13 17:50:24
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英 [ˈlɪtl]

determiner.(数量上)微少的,不多的;

adj.幼小的;年幼的;(时间、距离、事件等)短的,短暂的;快速的;轻微的;稍微的;微不足道的;细小的;琐碎的;(某一地区或区域)小的,微型的;

adv.很少;不多;不常;毫不;几乎不;

pronoun.少量;少许;片刻;

双语例句
  • He's an arrogant little swine!

    他是个傲慢的小讨厌鬼!

    《牛津词典》
  • Come here, you little bugger!

    过来,你这个小浑蛋!

    《牛津词典》
  • Come here, you little rascal!

    过来,你这个小坏蛋!

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm still a little jet-lagged.

    我还是有一点时差反应。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He's an arrogant little shit.

    他是个傲慢的卑鄙小人。

    《牛津词典》
  • Her son is a little horror.

    她的儿子是个小捣蛋鬼。

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm feeling a little tipsy.

    我觉得有点微醉了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He looked a little scruffy.

    他看着有点邋遢。

    《牛津词典》
  • She's such a little monkey.

    她是这么个小淘气。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Shall we walk a little way?

    我们走一小段路好吗?

    《牛津词典》
  • The little dog yapped frantically.

    那只小狗狂吠着。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • As always, he said little.

    他和平时一样,少言寡语。

    《牛津词典》
  • It's hungry—the poor little thing.

    它饿了,这可怜的小家伙。

    《牛津词典》
  • Come here, you cheeky little monkey!

    过来,你这没有教养的小捣蛋鬼!

    《牛津词典》
  • You stupid little bitch!

    你这个愚蠢的小悍妇!

    《牛津词典》
  • They looked like little ragamuffins.

    他们看着像一群小叫花子。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Gerald had little disposable income.

    杰拉尔德没有多少可自由支配的收入。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • We all have our little eccentricities.

    我们都有些小怪癖。

    《牛津词典》
  • We had a little girl.

    我们有个小女儿。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He uttered little indecipherable sounds.

    他声音很小,听不清楚。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • You little cheat!

    你这小滑头!

    《牛津词典》
  • He wondered if the idea wasn't just a little too flaky, a little too outlandish.

    他怀疑这个想法不仅仅是有点太古怪、而且还有点离奇。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He had very little schooling.

    他没上过几天学。

    《牛津词典》
  • Could you go a little slower?

    你能走慢点吗?

    《牛津词典》
  • She's a proper little madam.

    她真是个说一不二的小姑奶奶。

    《牛津词典》
  • She's feeling a little homesick.

    她感到有些想家了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • She had little maternal instinct.

    她几乎没有母性。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Everyone needs a little downtime.

    大家都需要休息一下。

    《牛津词典》
  • She's a good little worker.

    她是个讨人喜欢的工人。

    《牛津词典》
短语搭配
  • little bit

    一点点

  • little boy

    小男孩

  • little more than

    adv. 仅仅是

  • in a little

    ◎不久,一会儿

  • for a little

    一会儿

  • little by little

    渐渐;逐渐地

近义词
adj. 小的;很少的;短暂的;小巧可爱的
adv. 完全不
n. 少许;没有多少;短时间
反义词
同义词辨析

little, small, tiny, minute, miniature

这些形容词均有\小的\之意。

  • little : 指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小,多带主观感情色彩,含小而可爱或小巧的意味。

  • small : 多指数量、面积、体积、价值、数字或意义等的小或少,指略小于正常的大小。

  • tiny : 强调与同类或其他物体比较,小得超

  • 出正常比例,有时带强烈的感情色彩。

  • minute : 指小得难看见,有时需用显微镜才看得见。

  • miniature : 指由正常体积微缩的物体。

little, few, several

这几个词用作形容词时均含\少量的\之意。

  • little : 只修饰不可数名词,含否定意义。

  • few : 只修饰可数名词的复数形式,侧重指数量非常少,给人一种模糊概念,含否定意义。

  • several : 修饰可数名词的复数形式,指至少有3个,但不会超过5、6个。

考纲分布

6年出现 702

重要程度
  • 46%

    adj 年轻的; 幼小的

  • 45%

    adv/det/pron (a little)少许; 一点儿

  • 9%

    adj 小的; 短的; 少的

  • 0%

    adv/det/pron 不那么; 几乎没有; 不多

  • 0%

    adj/adv 不重要的; 微不足道的

  • 0%

    adv/det/pron (little by little)逐渐地

考纲释义
  • adj. 年轻的; 幼小的

    英文释义:

    (of a person) young or younger

    真题例句:

    • He has been working with them since he was a little boy and he's not afraid at all.

      他从小就和他们一起工作,他一点也不害怕。

      [2020年 武汉市卷 阅读理解]
    • John told his little daughter the earth moves from the west to the east.

      约翰告诉他的小女儿地球从西向东移动。

      [2018年 乌鲁木齐市卷 完形填空]
    • As a little child, she loved colouring in her colouring books.

      小时候,她喜欢在她的图画书中涂色。

      [2018年 苏州市卷 阅读理解]
  • adv/det/pron. (a little)少许; 一点儿

    英文释义:

    to a small degree

    真题例句:

    • You can only get a little pay but learn a lot.

      你只能得到一点点工资,但可以学到很多东西。

      [2020年 重庆市A卷 单项选择]
    • I began to feel a little worried.

      我开始有点担心了。

      [2020年 重庆市A卷 阅读表达]
    • I felt a little nervous.

      我感到有些紧张。

      [2019年 陕西省卷 阅读理解]
  • adj. 小的; 短的; 少的

    英文释义:

    small in size, length, or amount

    真题例句:

    • She was standing in front of me with a perfect map in her little hands.

      她站在我面前,小手拿着一张完美的地图。

      [2020年 河南省卷 完成句子]
    • He asked people he met if they'd seen a little kitten.

      他问他遇到的人是否见过一只小猫。

      [2020年 河南省卷 阅读]
    • Kitty wanted to plant a little garden with beautiful flowers for Mum's birthday.

      凯蒂想为妈妈的生日种一个有美丽花朵的小花园。

      [2018年 上海市卷 口语应用]
  • adv/det/pron. 不那么; 几乎没有; 不多

    英文释义:

    only to a small extent; not much or often

    真题例句:

    • It's fun to work out a way to lose as little water as possible.

      想出一种方法来损失尽可能少的水是很有趣的。

      [2020年 广东省卷 任务型阅读]
    • Many people nowadays are talking about the black hole, but I know little about it.

      现在很多人都在谈论黑洞,但我对它知之甚少。

      [2019年 云南省卷 单项选择]
    • He knows little about them.

      他对他们知之甚少。

      [2018年 山西省卷 阅读填空]
  • adj/adv. 不重要的; 微不足道的

    英文释义:

    relatively unimportant or trivial

    真题例句:

    • He paid special attention to the \little man\ at the bottom of society in the UK.

      他特别关注英国社会底层的“小人物”。

      [2020年 长沙市卷 听力]
    • Meet the \little man\ at the bottom of society in the UK.

      认识英国社会底层的“小人物”。

      [2020年 长沙市卷 阅读理解]
    • It is a little thing for you to do what you have done, but it shows that you're thoughtful and considerate.

      做你做过的事对你来说是一件小事,但它表明你很周到和体贴。

      [2018年 包头市卷 短文理解]
  • adv/det/pron. (little by little)逐渐地

    英文释义:

    slowly or gradually

    真题例句:

    • But what Hoge did changed his mother's mind little by little.

      但是霍格的所作所为一点一点地改变了他母亲的想法。

      [2020年 吉林省卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • few和little都可以表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”, 但是few修饰可数名词,little修饰不可数名词。示例:(1) He has few friends.他几乎没什么朋友。(2) I have little money.我没有钱。

  • little表示“少”的时候比较级是less,最高级是least。如:I hope there will be less air pollution in the future.我希望将来有更少的空气污染。

  • little与a little的区别:little和a little都可以用来修饰不可数名词,但是little表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”,a little表示肯定意义的“一点”“一些”。示例:(1) I have little interest in drawing. 我对画画没什么兴趣。(2) He was a little surprised. 他有点儿吃惊。

  • not a little的意思是“不止一点点”,也就是“很”“非常”的意思。示例:He was not a little surprised. 他非常吃惊。

考纲分布

12年出现 94

重要程度
  • 60%

    adj 小的; 年幼的

  • 23%

    adv 少

  • 17%

    pron 没多少; 一点

考纲释义
  • adj. 小的; 年幼的

    真题例句:

    • My father made little bunny (兔子) cakes for all its stores throughout Cleveland.

      我父亲为Cleveland所有的商店做小兔子蛋糕。

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 完形填空]
    • I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon.

      我买了一把完全成熟的小草莓和一个小甜瓜。

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 任务型阅读]
    • The little home was painted white.

      这个小家被漆成了白色。

      [2021年 浙江卷 语法填空]
  • adv. 少

    真题例句:

    • Juan knew so little about the world.

      Juan对这个世界知之甚少。

      [2020年 江苏卷 阅读理解]
    • She may just need a little persuading.

      她可能只需要一点说服力。

      [2019年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
    • But in that case, we will learn little the world.

      但在这种情况下,我们对世界了解甚少。

      [2016年 全国卷2 改错]
  • pron. 没多少; 一点

    真题例句:

    • Knowing a little about a lot of things that interest you can add to the richness of a whole, well-lived life.

      了解一点你感兴趣的事情,可以让你的生活更加丰富多彩。

      [2021年 天津卷 阅读理解]
    • There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover.

      没有更多的大陆和卫星可供搜索,几乎没有发现的余地。

      [2020年 江苏卷 阅读理解]
    • In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience.

      此外,大多数报纸几乎没有吸引大众的内容。

      [2019年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • 副词little放在句首,句子要倒装:Little does the artist care about what others think.这位艺术家很少关心别人想什么。

  • 当陈述部分含有little、hardly、never、seldom、few等否定意义的副词和代词,其反意疑问部分要用肯定形式:There are few people present at the chairman's birthday party, are there?几乎没有人参加主席的生日聚会,是吗?

  • 副词little常和very连用:She eats very little.她吃得很少。

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

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 选项
  • A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 题设
  • After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文
  • Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文
  • Anderson believed that the smarter a child is, the less likely he gets addicted to TV.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 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年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
  • Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

    2016年高考英语四川卷 语法填空 原文
  • As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • As some psychologists put it, \It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.\

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • At least the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
  • At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项
  • 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年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Because there is less light pollution.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • 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年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Better still, let's meet in the Red Lion Bar to have a nice little talk.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 听力 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年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Boldness can be gained little by little.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • But she kept urging us to have a look at least.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 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年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

    2018年高考英语北京卷 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年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文
  • Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语上海卷 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年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文
  • From that day on, I grew bigger and a little more real.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文
  • Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • He received little love from his family.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文
  • Her little work experience in court.

    2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
  • Holden cared little where Judy was buried.

    2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
  • 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年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • How is little Ed doing at the kindergarten, Jack?

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 听力 原文
  • How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
  • 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年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 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年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device on your desk.

    2016年高考英语全国卷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年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 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年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 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年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • If you drop that, you begin to feel a little \dead\ inside because you're \dropping\ you.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you'll be less likely to bring your work home.

    2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience.

    2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

    2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文
  • Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful?

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • It had little pieces of wood in different colors.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
  • It is certainly fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文
  • It just requires a little knowledge.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 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年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 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年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

    2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • Let me explain a little about it.

    2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 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年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Little did I know that I would discover my love for ASL.

    2017年高考英语全国卷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年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • Little over 50% of all species would still exist.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
  • Little people can make a big difference.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
  • Little Tom sat amazed watching the monkey dancing in front of him.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 单项填空 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年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 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年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷 单项填空 原文
  • My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 105

重要程度
  • 84%

    adv/n 少量; 少许

  • 14%

    adj/adv 小的; 短的

  • 1%

    adj/adv 不重要的

  • 1%

    adj 年轻的

考纲释义
  • adv/n. 少量; 少许

    英文释义:

    a small amount of

    真题例句:

    • No, I actually owned a car for a little while when I lived in Miami.

      不,我在迈阿密住的时候确实有一段时间有一辆车。

      [2021年 CET4 听力]
    • The concept of work-life balance contributes little to a fulfilling life.

      工作与生活平衡的概念对充实的生活贡献不大。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解C]
    • When you separate work and life, it's a little bit harder to make that connection.

      当你把工作和生活分开时,要建立这种联系就有点难了。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解C]
  • adj/adv. 小的; 短的

    英文释义:

    small in size; length; or amount

    真题例句:

    • I did it all by myself with a little help from my brother Greg.

      在我哥哥Greg的一点帮助下,我独自完成了这件事。

      [2020年 CET4 听力]
    • Little information can be found about Chinese immigrants in the author's school library.

      在作者的学校图书馆里几乎找不到关于中国移民的信息。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • 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.

      在这家小面包店的后房,他对设计的兴趣和他的烘焙天赋共同创造了奇迹——他用面粉,黄油和糖制作出了美味的杰作。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • adj/adv. 不重要的

    英文释义:

    relatively unimportant or trivial

  • adj. 年轻的

    英文释义:

    (of a person) young or younger

必考短语
用法讲解
  • few和little都可以表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”, 但是few修饰可数名词,little修饰不可数名词。示例:(1) He has few friends.他几乎没什么朋友。(2) I have little money.我没有钱。

  • little与a little的区别:little和a little都可以用来修饰不可数名词,但是little表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”,a little表示肯定意义的“一点”“一些”。示例:(1) I have little interest in drawing. 我对画画没什么兴趣。(2) He was a little surprised. 他有点儿吃惊。

  • not a little的意思是“不止一点点”,也就是“很”“非常”的意思。示例:He was not a little surprised. 他非常吃惊。

单词辨析
  • little指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小,多带主观感情色彩,含小而可爱或小巧的意味。

  • miniature指由正常体积微缩的物体。

  • minute指小得难看见,有时需用显微镜才看得见。

  • few只修饰可数名词的复数形式,侧重指数量非常少,给人一种模糊概念,含否定意义。

  • little只修饰不可数名词,含否定意义。

真题例句
  • While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They feel much less pain in the process.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic ( ' , 神经质的 ) than other people.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • But what effect does your personality have on your longevity ( ' , 长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • But many tech home   remedies can be explained by a little science.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Service quality has little effect on tip size.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • At least, the American  side of the falls.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • They get less sleep on public holidays.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon ( ' , 行话 ).

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Her release from prison has drawn little attention.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey ( ' , 冰球 ) final.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control, he said.

    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, he says.

    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.

    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.

    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.

    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.

    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I just draw little lines and nonsense really.

    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I was a little scared at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • I was hesitant because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • 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.

    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • 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.

    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In fact, sometimes I draw a little, too.

    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • 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.

    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I've got a little put aside for a rainy day, but I might need to earn a little more before we go.

    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized theories about how things work.

    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • 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.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The boat, traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper, and fruits are really good for the brain.

    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • They sleep very deeply and need little or no food.

    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn't normally ever touch water, an airbus A0.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • 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.

    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
考纲分布

12年出现 106

重要程度
  • 81%

    adv/n 少量; 少许

  • 16%

    adj/adv 小的; 短的

  • 2%

    adv/pron (几乎)没有; 微乎其微

  • 1%

    adj/adv 不重要的

  • 0%

    adj 年轻的

考纲释义
  • adv/n. 少量; 少许

    英文释义:

    a small amount of

    真题例句:

    • After all, they may think a little dirt doesn't hurt anyone.

      毕竟,他们可能会认为一点污垢不会伤害任何人。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • And it only takes a little bit of dirt to damage your timber floors.

      只需要一点点泥土就能损坏你的木地板。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • Let me just call my mom and let her know I'll be home a little bit later.

      让我给我妈打个电话告诉她我晚点回来。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
  • adj/adv. 小的; 短的

    英文释义:

    small in size, length, or amount

  • adv/pron. (几乎)没有; 微乎其微

    真题例句:

    • The news has left investors and consumers outraged but comes as little surprise to those in the fashion industry.

      这一消息让投资者和消费者感到愤怒,但对时装业的人来说并不意外。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解B]
    • The plan was to reduce prices to move the stock, arguably encouraging consumers to buy and throw away with little thought.

      该计划是通过降价来转移库存,可以说是鼓励消费者不假思索地购买和丢弃。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解B]
    • There is little sense in trying to convince someone at Position 1.

      试图说服处于1号位置的人是没有意义的。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解B]
  • adj/adv. 不重要的

    英文释义:

    relatively unimportant or trivial

  • adj. 年轻的

    英文释义:

    (of a person) young or younger

必考短语
用法讲解
  • few和little都可以表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”, 但是few修饰可数名词,little修饰不可数名词。 示例:(1) He has few friends. 他几乎没什么朋友。 (2) I have little money. 我没有钱。

  • little与a little的区别: little和a little都可以用来修饰不可数名词,但是little表示否定意义,表示数量“很少”“几乎没有”,a little表示肯定意义的“一点”“一些”。 示例:(1) I have little interest in drawing. 我对画画没什么兴趣。 (2) He was a little surprised. 他有点儿吃惊。

  • not a little的意思是“不止一点点”,也就是“很”“非常”的意思。 示例:He was not a little surprised. 他非常吃惊。

单词辨析
  • little指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小, 多带主观感情色彩, 含小而可爱或小巧的意味。

  • miniature指由正常体积微缩的物体。

  • minute指小得难看见, 有时需用显微镜才看得见。

  • few只修饰可数名词的复数形式, 侧重指数量非常少, 给人一种模糊概念, 含否定意义。

  • little只修饰不可数名词, 含否定意义。

真题例句
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It contributes little to the elimination of inequality.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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 ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • While yoga and meditation ( ' , 静思 ) are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They slept six hours a night or less.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They have little responsibility for public health problems.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks ( ' , 骗术).

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It has just grown up a little.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And while you may forgive your smartphone an occasional fault, you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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月听力原文
  • 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月听力原文
  • 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月听力原文
  • 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月阅读原文
  • They tend to offer too many less challenging courses.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • They may have to use less effective drugs.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Overuse of less effective medicines.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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月阅读原文
  • 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.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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月听力原文
  • And breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little cafe.

    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Can you tell us a little about that?

    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • I was a little surprised to be invited, to be honest.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • I wonder if you can tell me a little bit about your job as a radio announcer.

    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It's a little dry and salty.

    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other.

    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets.

    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Next, Twenge's team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks.

    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • That costume is often referred to as the most famous little black dress of all time.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The idea of one going in my mouth made me feel a little sick.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
考纲分布

18年出现 54

重要程度
  • 81%

    adv/det/pron 不那么; 几乎没有

  • 13%

    adj 小的; 短的; 少的

  • 4%

    adv/det/pron (a little)少许; 一点儿

  • 2%

    adj 年轻的; 幼小的

  • 0%

    adj/adv 不重要的

  • 0%

    adj 可爱的; 可怜的; 讨厌的

考纲释义
  • adv/det/pron. 不那么; 几乎没有

    英文释义:

    only to a small extent; not much or often

    真题例句:

    • Optimists' opinions on new tech find little support.

      乐观主义者对新技术的观点几乎没有得到支持。

      [2018年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • His father was a clerk in the British Navy pay office — a respectable position, but with little social status.

      他的父亲是英国海军薪酬办公室的一名职员——一个体面的职位,但没有什么社会地位。

      [2017年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

      复制和确认已为人所知或所信的东西不会有多少回报。

      [2012年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • adj. 小的; 短的; 少的

    英文释义:

    small in size, length, or amount

    真题例句:

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

      十多年后,进口份额为25.8%。

      [2019年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for the process.

      但对航空旅客要求过高或提供的安全保障太少,会削弱公众对这一过程的支持。

      [2017年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • Students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

      学生可以轻易略过一半家庭作业,而在成绩单上看不出什么差别。

      [2012年 英语二 阅读理解A]
  • adv/det/pron. (a little)少许; 一点儿

    英文释义:

    to a small degree

    真题例句:

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

      你只是一个普通人,有时候你的孩子会让你忍无可忍。

      [2020年 英语二 完型填空]
    • Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning.

      事实上,政府参与规划有点荒谬。

      [2017年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • With them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.

      有了它们,就不会像在小蔬菜水果店里买一根胡萝卜那样尴尬了。

      [2013年 英语二 阅读理解B]
  • adj. 年轻的; 幼小的

    英文释义:

    (of a person) young or younger

    真题例句:

    • McClain's little ones aren't the only kids who have an opinion when it comes to housing.

      McClain的孩子们并不是唯一对住房有意见的孩子。

      [2019年 英语二 阅读理解B]
  • adj/adv. 不重要的

    英文释义:

    relatively unimportant or trivial

  • adj. 可爱的; 可怜的; 讨厌的

    英文释义:

    used after an adjective to show affection or dislike,

必考短语
用法讲解
  • little和a little都可用作限定词修饰不可数名词,但其含义不同。little表示“几乎没有”,相当于一个否定词,a little表示肯定的意思,指“有一点,有一些”。如:I have a little money(我有一点钱)是肯定陈述,而I have little money(我没什么钱)是否定陈述,表示几乎没钱。

真题例句
  • In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

    出自-2009年考研翻译原文
  • 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年考研翻译原文
  • 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年考研阅读原文
  • We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal ( ' , fatherly) wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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  • That, at least, is the hope.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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  • They’ll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

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

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

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  • “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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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

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

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

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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