can be counted on one's fingers; very few; can be counted on the fingers of a [one] hand -- not many; may be counted by bending the fingers; only a few to count
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他的日子屈指可数了。his days are numbered
屈指可数, 寥寥无几 can be counted on the fingers of one hand; could be counted on the fingers of one hand
Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money - box 但是能把储蓄罐装曼的只有屈指可数的几个特别借鉴的孩子。
Days are numbered 生存时日屈指可数
We ' ve been in beijing eight months and have only felt a few drizzles 我们来北京已经8个月了,到现在为止只见过屈指可数的几次小雨。
Only a few small vehicles passed us on the road and most of the traffic was pedestrian traffic 从我们身旁路过的车屈指可数,绝大多数都是步行客。
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live 大家都读过扣人心弦的故事,故事中的主人公只能够活一段屈指可数的日子了。
Before the lectures , europe could count only a handful of fellow initiates , and most of them were foreign students 在此之前,欧洲各国的同修人数很少,真的是屈指可数,半数是穷留学生。
Time has passed so fast that it has been three months since i left my first host family 也没发现时间过的这麽快,距离回家的时间也只剩下屈指可数的四个月了,只是接下来的时间只会过的更快。
The academic circles begin to research it in the last few years . in our country , few enterprises realized mass customization 而我国真正实现了大规模定制的企业屈指可数,其中主要是外企。
The days in which you could learn html in a short time and craft your own web page using a text editor are numbered 在短时间内学会html语言和用文本编辑程序设计自己网页的日子已屈指可数了。
However , after several years competition , only a few companies still persist in this field and have made achievement 而经过了这几年的沉寂,也就屈指可数几家还在坚持,而且他们做出了成绩。