precious little/few

informal LITTLE/NOT MUCHvery little or very few 非常少

I had precious little time for reading.

我很少有时间看书。

Examples from the Corpus

precious little/few• At the moment there is precious little.• Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.• From which it follows that many will choose precious little attachment.• I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.• Eight voices then, and precious little else.• She had to find some other way to save Angel's precious little life, and find it quickly.• Once the polarization occurs, there is precious little Mrs Clinton can do about it.• There are precious few seats inside the court room.• There was precious little to learn.

→ precious little/few at precious2(1)

词汇	precious little/few
释义	precious little/few precious little/few informal LITTLE/NOT MUCHvery little or very few 非常少 I had precious little time for reading. 我很少有时间看书。 Examples from the Corpus precious little/few• At the moment there is precious little.• Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.• From which it follows that many will choose precious little attachment.• I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.• Eight voices then, and precious little else.• She had to find some other way to save Angel's precious little life, and find it quickly.• Once the polarization occurs, there is precious little Mrs Clinton can do about it.• There are precious few seats inside the court room.• There was precious little to learn. → precious little/few at precious2(1)
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