least
英 [li?st]
美[list]
- adj. 最小的；最少的（little的最高級）
- adv. 最小；最少
- n. 最小；最少
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中文詞源
least 最少的
來自古英語laesest,最小的，less的最高級。
英文詞源
- least
- least: [OE] In origin, least is simply the superlative form of less. The prehistoric Germanic ancestor of less was *laisiz (itself a comparative form). Addition of the superlative suffix produced *laisistaz, which passed into Old English as l?sest. Unchanged, this would have become in modern English *lessest, but it was contracted in the Old English period to l?st, and so modern English has least.
=> less - least (adj.)
- Old English l?st, earlier l?sest "smallest" (superlative of lytel "small"), from Proto-Germanic superlative *laisistaz (see less). Qualifying phrase at least is Middle English ?t l?stan. As a noun, from early 12c.; as an adverb, c. 1200.
雙語例句
- 1. Try to eat at least four slices of bread a day.
- 每天盡量至少吃4片面包。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He is the least appealing character, to me at any rate.
- 他是其中最沒有吸引力的角色，至少對我來說是這樣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.
- 現(xiàn)在英國至少有3家高爾夫球場為日本人所有。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. At least this second meeting had helped to thaw the atmosphere.
- 這第二次會議至少起到了緩和氣氛的作用。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. I don't have the least idea of what you're talking about.
- 我一點兒都不知道你在說什么。
來自柯林斯例句