► 接頭辞
少 [しょう] meaning: small rank: 1
☆ 少人数向けの会議室 ⇨ A meeting room suitable for a smaller group
☆ 少量の水を加えて下さい ⇨ Add a small amount of water
More examples:
- 少量生産の高級車 ⇨ A luxury car built in small numbers
- おい、そこの少年！ ⇨ Hey you, a young boy over there!
- 状況は少しずつ改善した ⇨ The situation improved little by little
- ずっと座っていたので少し体操した ⇨ I had been sitting for a long time, so I did some exercise
- もう少し下がって下さい ⇨ Please step back a little further
- 家出少女 ⇨ A runaway girl
- 燃料が残り少ない ⇨ There is not much fuel left
- この辺には一戸建ては少ない ⇨ There aren’t many single-family detached houses around here
- 雨の後晴れ間が少し覗いた ⇨ After rain, some patches of blue sky showed up
- 少数派の意見は無視される ⇨ The opinions of minorities will be ignored
- 彼の体臭は少し臭うどころではない ⇨ His BO doesn’t just smell a little
- 人通りの少ない道 ⇨ A street there isn’t much foot traffic
- 彼は線が太くて多少の事ではへこたれない ⇨ He’s pretty tough and a little adversity won’t deter him
- 彼は少し抜けている ⇨ He is not all there, a little slow, lacks common sense
- その仕事は彼には少し荷が重過ぎる ⇨ That work is a little too heavy, difficult, for him