few, little虽然都表示“少”，但

（1）few 是可数的, little是不可数的。

（2）few, little含否定意味。这里所谓的“肯定意味”和“否定意味”应该这样来理解：同样是半杯水，口渴者会认为：There is little water in the glass. 而不口渴的人则会认为：There is a little water in the glass.

一、具体释义：

1．few修饰可数名词复数。

2．few (= not many; hardly any)含否定意义；

3． not a few = no few = quite a few = a good few = many。

4． 当 few受 every, last, past, next, some, very等词所修饰时，表示肯定意义，few之前不再有冠词。如：

In the last few minutes, he checked up his paper again.

It took us some few days to repair the machine.

They are very few in number.

There were too few of them.