Francis dissipated his large fortune inherited from his grandfather in a few years.

弗朗西斯在几年里就把他从祖父那里继承来的一大笔财产挥霍光了。

There are few nations who are able to claim a closer bond.

我发现很少有国家能够像我宣称拥有如此紧密的联系。

We've just got a few seconds, Tom Bowman.

我还有几秒钟的时间，汤姆·鲍曼。

The country now has an elected government and international aid has begun to arrive, but there are few resources for education in rural villages.

该国目前有了民选政府，开始收到国际援助，但农村地区的教育资源很缺乏。

There are quite a few familiarity markers in English - words which take on an ending to make the word sound much more familiar, or everyday, or down to earth.

英语中有很多近亲词，些词的词末字母通常会让单词听起来更亲近，更通俗实用。

A year ago, few of us would have predicted the eventsahead.

一年前，我中很少有人会提前预料到件事。

There are few parallels between the American football and European football.

美式橄榄球和欧洲足球没有什么相似之处。

Our economy doesn’t work as well or grow as fast when a few prosper at the expense of a growing middle class, and ladders for folks who want to get into the midle class.

我的经济运转和增长还不够快，少数人发财，却以更多的中产阶级为代价。也包括那些站在梯子上想要加入中产阶级的人。

Oh dear, sorry about that. We took on some new staff this week and we've had a few problems.

哦，歉。我周招了几个新员工，造成了一些困扰。

A long story can sometimes be condensed into a few sentences.

一个长篇故事常常可以缩写成几个句子。

A few of his critics might agree, but they would be wrong.

一些批评他的人可能会同意，但他错了。

It was a feeding frenzy. The house sold in a few minutes.

交易非常火暴，房子在几钟之内就售出了。

Math has fewer concepts but they're chained deeper.

数学的概念很少，但是互相关联很深。

A few weeks later Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo.

几周后，弗朗茨·斐迪南大公在萨拉热窝遇害。

Implementation figures are expected to be improved in the next few years.

执行数据预计在今后几年内会有所改善。

A few hours later, the attorney general intervened.

几个小时之后，司法部长介入。

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

我发现大多数妻子想让丈夫首先成为自己的交谈伙伴，但几乎没有几位丈夫有同的期望，点也是海克多年前就已经观察到的事实。

There were report shows fewer women are holding jobs in college sports.

报告显示，从事高校体育运动工作的女性越来越少。

The past few decades have lifted us together.

过去的几年中，我齐头并进。

Well, for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically programmed to admire, but also as tall, slender figures, and femininity and white skin.

在过去的几个世纪里，美的定义不仅仅只包括健康，年轻和身材匀称些我出于生物本能去赞美的元素，还包括高挑，苗条的体型， 富有女性气质，白色皮肤些特征。