例句
||1: He was born grinning, it seemed. ||2: He was certainly born small, and never made much progress after. ||3: The littlest in his gang at school, the tiny cabin boy aboard the Maindy Court sailing for Argentina, almost the scrawniest in his regiment in India in the 1930s. ||4: Everyone’s mascot, jester, dogsbody, hoping to foil the punches by rolling over and begging for a pat on the head. ||5: He was five-foot-four on a good day, easily dwarfed by bosses, army sergeants, aristocrats or rivals for the willowy girls who strolled into his life. ||6: When his second wife walked out on him in 1968 he couldn’t help remarking, bitterly, that she had left him for someone handsomer and taller.
||1:诺曼似乎是咧嘴笑着出生的。||2:他出生时一定也很小，而且后来也从未见长大了多少。||3:在学校时，他是小伙伴中最小的。上世纪30年代，他是印度驶向阿根廷的美蒂宫廷号船上的一个小不点式的船舱侍应生，几乎是侍应生中瘦得皮包骨最严重的一个。||4:他成了船上每一个人的吉祥物、供人逗乐者、打杂工，希望通过打滚并乞人拍其头来彰显自己重要。||5:他过上一段好日子的时候，身高1米64，一位身材纤长的姑娘进入了他的生活。他的身高在上司、军士、贵族或对手面前，明显相形见绌。||6:1968年，他的第二位妻子遗弃了他，他痛不自禁地诉说，她离开他是因为某个人比他更英俊更高大。
adjective
1.(of a person) young or younger.
‘my little brother’
‘when she was little she was always getting into scrapes’
2.Denoting something, especially a place, that is the smaller or smallest of those so named or is named after a similar larger one.
‘the village of Little Chesterton’
‘Albert Street will be closed from 8am to 6pm on Sunday from Little London to Union Row.’
3.Of short distance or duration.
‘stay for a little while’
‘we climbed up a little way’
4.Relatively unimportant or trivial (often used ironically)
‘we have a little problem’
‘I can’t remember every little detail’
5.Small in size, amount, or degree (often used to convey an appealing diminutiveness or express an affectionate or condescending attitude)
‘the plants will grow into little bushes’
‘a little puppy dog’
6.Used in names of animals and plants that are smaller than related kinds, e.g. little grebe.
adverb
1.Hardly or not at all.
‘little did he know what wheels he was putting into motion’
‘They pointed out how little human nature has changed over the last thousand years.’
2.Only to a small extent; not much or often (used for emphasis)
‘he was little known in this country’
‘he had slept little these past weeks’
3.To a small extent.
‘he reminded me a little of my parents’
‘I was always a little afraid of her’
pronoun
1.A short time or distance.
‘after a little, the rain stopped’
2.A small amount of.
‘we got a little help from a training scheme’
‘you only see a little of what he can do’
3.Used to emphasize how small an amount is.
‘I have little doubt of their identity’
‘there was very little time to be lost’
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adjective
‘my little brother’
