least
英 [liːst]
美 [list]
- adj. 最小的；最少的（little的最高级）
- adv. 最小；最少
- n. 最小；最少
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least 最少的来自古英语laesest,最小的，less的最高级。
- 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 lǣsest. Unchanged, this would have become in modern English *lessest, but it was contracted in the Old English period to lǣst, and so modern English has least.
=> less - least (adj.)
- Old English læst, earlier læsest "smallest" (superlative of lytel "small"), from Proto-Germanic superlative *laisistaz (see less). Qualifying phrase at least is Middle English æt læstan. As a noun, from early 12c.; as an adverb, c. 1200.
- 1. Try to eat at least four slices of bread a day.
- 每天尽量至少吃4片面包。
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- 2. He is the least appealing character, to me at any rate.
- 他是其中最没有吸引力的角色，至少对我来说是这样。
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- 3. At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.
- 现在英国至少有3家高尔夫球场为日本人所有。
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- 4. At least this second meeting had helped to thaw the atmosphere.
- 这第二次会议至少起到了缓和气氛的作用。
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- 5. I don't have the least idea of what you're talking about.
- 我一点儿都不知道你在说什么。
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