容易誤譯的英語:quite a few [little]

quite a few [little]這個詞語在特定語言環(huán)境下很容易使人誤譯，那么你覺得quite a few [little]應(yīng)該怎么翻譯呢?quite a few [little]的原意又是什么呢?

quite a few [little]

［例句］　Barry has quite a few books .

［誤譯］　巴里有很少 的書。

［原意］　巴里有相當(dāng)多 的書。

［說明］　quite a few（口語）意為“不少的”、“相當(dāng)多的”。它與a good few和not a few同義。quite a little（口語）也是這個意思。例如：Tina has quite a little difficulty in the work意思不是“蒂娜工作中困難很少”，而是“蒂娜工作中困難不少”。只不過quite a few用于可數(shù)名詞，quite a little用于不可數(shù)名詞。

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