precious little

I had precious little time for reading.

我很少有时间看书。

Hey, Jay. There's our precious little houseguest.

杰，你好，瞧瞧我们的小稀客。

Back in the disease's terrifying heyday of the 1980s and early' 90s, even experts knew precious little about how to treat HIV, which is usually transmitted through unprotected anal or vaginal sex or by sharing drug needles.

20世纪80年代及90年代初期是艾滋病的发病高峰，那时即使是专家们也对应对HIV病毒知之甚少。这种病毒通常是通过共用针管或不卫生的性交方式造成传染。

And even if Alan was a son of Empire, the Turing household had precious little in common with the Palais Wittgenstein.

尽管艾伦是大英帝国的儿子，但他的出身完全无法与维特根斯坦相提并论。

Yet there is precious little sign that foreign demand is drying up.

然而,鲜有迹象表明外国需求正在枯竭.

Here I call her'precious little darling'and I still get hit!

叫她'小宝贝',还要挨打!

This was particularly true for francophone and lusophone ( Portuguese-speaking) African countries. There's precious little on offer for states such as the Comoros, Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique-I had to rely on unpublished manuscripts for several of these.

尤其是对于使用法语以及葡语的非洲国家来说，只有找到很少、很宝贵的一部分书能够被找到，比如科摩罗、马达加斯加、几内亚-比绍以及莫桑比克。对其中的一些国家，我不得不依赖于尚未出版的手稿。

The precious little we know so far would certainly indicate that flatulence is a rich topic for investigation.

由于目前我们还知之甚少，因此肠胃气胀是一个需要调查研究的丰富主题。

There's precious little to do in this town.

这个镇上没有多少可做的事。

The banks have had precious little to celebrate recently...

银行最近没几件值得庆贺的事。

For there is precious little evidence that the ban in US markets truly halted share price declines; on the contrary, the impact was ( at best) neutral, they claim.

因为没有什么证据表明美国市场的卖空禁令确实阻止了股价下跌，相反，他们认为，禁令的效果（充其量）是中性的。

There is currently precious little research on the best way to treat psychosomatic illness, but she tends to refer her patients to psychiatrists or to a cognitive behavioural therapist ( CBT) who might be able to unknot the distress or trauma that is leading to the illness.

目前很少有人研究治疗心身疾病的最好方式，但奥沙利文常常建议她的病人去看精神科医生或进行认知行为治疗（cognitive behavioural therapist）。这种疗法或许可以解开致病痛苦或心灵创伤。

" Then you're the precious little darling asleep in the cradle.

“ 那么,你就是摇篮里睡着的小宝贝了.

You'll get precious little sympathy from her.

你不会得到她多少同情的.

It is with great sorrow that we have just learned of the passing away of your precious little daughter.

获悉你们可爱的女儿去世，我们极为悲痛。

He took precious little notice.

他几未加注意.

There is precious little of it.

只有一点点,极少极少.

The banks have had precious little to celebrate recently.

银行最近没几件值得庆贺的事。

There was precious little to learn.

可学的东西极少.

She had precious little rest: one could guess by her white face and heavy eyes.

她难得有点休息; 从她那发白的脸和迷迷瞪瞪的眼睛可以猜得出.

The show being over, the flutter in the air became quite a little storm, and the precious little bells went ringing down-stairs.

接见大典结束，空气的振动转化成了一场小小的风暴，宝贵的小铃铛叮叮咚咚下了楼。

Back in the days of the great moderation, the west felt so over-confident about the prediction powers of its computers that there was precious little debate about how robust our modern systems really are.

在大稳健时期，西方过度相信计算机的预测能力，以至于人们很少讨论我们的现代体系到底有多稳健。

There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd

板球比赛能激起观众热情的地方很少。

There's precious little left after your ticket and dinners and such are taken off.

扣除月票、饭钱和其它开销就所剩无几了.

It amounts to precious little water, less than half a percent of the world's water supply.

淡水等于珍贵而量少的水, 不到全球水量供给的一半.

That culture has left precious little time for raising a family and is rapidly causing a population crisis, with fewer babies born last year than at any time since records began in 1899.

这种文化留给养育家庭的时间非常少，并迅速导致了人口危机，去年出生的婴儿数量降到1899年开始统计以来的最低点。

There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd.

板球比赛能激起观众热情的地方很少。

Precious little I've told her of the rlroad or how I was turned off.

我简直从没跟她提起过铁路公司,也从没提起过我给停掉生意的经过.

The banks have had precious little to celebrate recently

银行最近没几件值得庆贺的事。

The precious little picture is framed now and hangs in my study.

那张珍贵的小图画现在已经裱糊装帧挂在我的书房里.