| 单词 | tiny little |
| 释义 | > as lemmastiny little (b) Following the other adjective. Esp. in tiny little.wee little: see wee adj. a. ΚΠ 1685 S. Collins Systeme Anat. I. 675 Their various Cylinders, making up fine Compages, beset with divers minute little bottles of Juice. 1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 101 A Petty little Family in the Shire of Air, the Representatives of which, until his Father's time never designed the Laird, but always the Goodman of Kelburn. 1844 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 743 What microscopic little beasts! 1864 T. Trollope Lindisf. Chase II. viii. xxiv. 146 She mused at one moment on a whole brainful of minute little projects for [etc.]. 1883 Househ. Words 5 May 7/1 I have tried to..give the place a tiny little look of home. 1948 ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout xiv. 148 They've no eyes for anything but the petty little details of their petty little lives. 1951 D. Thomas Let. 16 Jan. (1987) 784 In the children's wards, I saw rows and rows of tiny little Persian children suffering from starvation. 1967 B. Cleary Mitch & Amy iv. 81 If only you would stop for a minute so I could catch up... Just one teeny little weeny little minute. 1980 Hindustan Times (New Delhi) 11 Nov. 9/2 The British have reverted to what they basically are—a small little people with small little minds, inhabiting a small little island in the Atlantic. 1990 W. Denver Tombstone Showdown xiv. 132 It is only a very few short little miles. < as lemmas |
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