wee

• adj. 極小的；很早的
• n. 一點點

來自weight的口語，來自短語a littel wei,即少量的，很小的。

wee

wee: English has two words wee. The older, ‘small’ [OE], was originally a noun, Old English wēg or wēge. This meant ‘weight’, and is closely related to English weigh. Its use in contexts such as a little wee, literally ‘a(chǎn) small weight’, meant that by the 13th century it had shifted semantically to ‘small amount’, but it did not become an adjective until the 15th century. Weeny was derived from it in the 18th century. Wee ‘urine, urinate’ [20] and its reduplication wee-wee [20] are nursery words, and no doubt originated in some sort of fanciful imitation of the sound of urinating.
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wee (adj.)

"extremely small," mid-15c., from earlier noun use in sense of "quantity, amount" (such as a littel wei "a little thing or amount," c. 1300), from Old English w?ge "weight" (see weigh). Adjectival use wee bit apparently developed as parallel to such forms as a bit thing "a little thing." Wee hours is attested by 1891, from Scottish phrase wee sma' hours (1819). Wee folk "faeries" is recorded from 1819. Weeny "tiny, small" is from 1790.

1. The baby has done a wee in his potty.

嬰兒往便壺里撒了尿。

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2. He just needs to calm down a wee bit.

他只是需要稍微冷靜一下。

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3. I put him on his pot, he did some wee.

我把他放到便壺上，他撒了點尿。

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4. He said he wanted to wee.

他說他要撒尿。

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5. I've got a wee kitten in the flat.

我在公寓里養(yǎng)了一只小貓。

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