| 单词 | precious little |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprecious little 2. As an intensifier: extremely, very; esp. in precious few, precious little. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [adjective] > small in number one or two ——a1400 threea1535 two or three1557 two-three1557 two1661 precious few1839 1775 J. Sewall Cure for Spleen 4 We have but precious little cyder this year. 1839 A. Gray Lett. (1893) I. 268 While on the Continent I have received precious few letters. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xx. 203 Kit..was ‘precious raw’ or ‘precious deep’. 1886 J. Chamberlain Speech House Comm. 26 Aug. Precious few of them have declared in favour of the bill before their constituents. 1939 Time 18 Dec. 21/3 Since precious little German trade can be sailed, submarined or flown overseas, writing about ‘new possibilities’..sounded like official whistling in the dark. 1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie xi. 250 Although he was far too sophisticated to be a biblical fundamentalist, he had argued himself precious close to it with the New Testament. 2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 7 Parents in outer Sydney are paying as little as $30 a day for childcare while their inner-city counterparts fork out three times that much for precious few places. < as lemmas |
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