vārdnīca angļu - angļu

English - English

very little angļu valodā:

1. precious little precious little



2. tiny


Since he can read such tiny print, he is far from being near-sighted.
tiny spider
She appeared on the cover of magazines holding a tiny ampule of blood.
Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.
Parker Brothers ran out of thimbles and tiny cannons, amounting to a multimillion-dollar loss.
Fiber-optic cables are made up of tiny glass fibers which are as thin as human hairs.
Yesterday, I found a tiny piece of land for sale in a quiet residential area and I immediately decided to buy it.
Everybody always knows when the politicians do something wrong and how they should do it better, but only a tiny fraction of the population is ready to commit themselves to politics.
Unless you have really tiny veins, you shouldn't have any trouble.
It was a little dog, wasn't it?" "Little? It was tiny!
That tiny meal wasn’t enough for me. I’m still hungry.
In that moment I knew I never wanted to see a dead body, not even of a tiny animal.
Her tiny attic room had poor ventilation and in summer it became unbearably stuffy.
The latter one is particularly interesting as it allows to create an extremely tiny tests
She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

3. hardly any


In the beginning, there were hardly any Westerners practicing karate.
They sold hardly any books.
There is hardly any differance between the job candidates.

4. hardly


When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.
Hardly a day passes that I don't think of you.
hardly ever
However, apart from Buddhists, hardly anyone can consistently follow this principle.
It can hardly be called research... just an amateur's hobby, I'm ashamed to say.
However, his girlfriend is selfish and hardly worries about Brian.
Goods are the great travelers over the earth's surface, far more than humans, which means that hardly an inhabited spot on the globe is untouched by trade.
Prof. K is going to be a major attraction at this event right? I can hardly wait.
We sped into the narrow track, hardly dropping any speed. "It's a short cut!" "Oi! It's a footpath!!"
The traditional way of learning a language may satisfy at most one's sense of duty, but it can hardly serve as a source of joy. Nor will it likely be successful.
If it's a request from you, I'm hardly likely to be able to turn you down flat.
While you can hardly move, they're running around having all kinds of fun.
The little house, in which he lived, was hardly bigger than a hut.
But Emma was hardly listening. She had started to plan her part in trapping the Mexican.

5. flour


Flour is made from wheat.
He bought flour and oil in quantity.
In 1835, a barrel of flour cost six dollars.
Soba is made of buckwheat flour, and udon and kishimen are made of plain wheat flour.
Coat the chicken breast with flour.
Could you hand me a bag of flour?
We import flour from America.
Grandma sprinkled flour on the rolling pin so the dough wouldn't stick to it.
Roux is made while cooking flour and butter together.
Whether a dough is a success only depends on the quality of the flour, never on Qdii's cooking skills.
About two million pounds of flour are exported annually.
When the mouse is satiated, the flour is bitter.
When you're at the supermarket, can you buy me some flour?
This always makes me feel awkward—it’s one thing to decline a handshake when my hands are covered with motor oil or pastry flour, but in the absence of visible contaminants, North Americans typically consider it an insult not to accept a handshake.
If ashes were flour and peat was bacon, we'd eat bacon pancakes every day.