quite a few

1 a fairly large number of things or people 相当多，不少

She must have cooked a good few dinners over the years.

这些年她一定做过不少次晚餐。

quite a few/a good few/not a few of 只有少数例外。

There were hundreds of protesters, not a few of whom were women.

有几百名示威者，其中不少是女性。

→ quite a few/a good few/not a few at few(1)

2 LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTa fairly large number or amount 许多，大量，不少

He’s got quite a lot of friends.

他的朋友很多。

Quite a few towns are now banning cars from their shopping centres.

现在有不少城镇禁止汽车驶入购物中心。

Examples from the Corpus

quite a lot/bit/few• Over 296 pages, Fallows cites quite a few.• The man looks prosperous, like quite a few men.• I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade.• There's quite a bit of noise coming from the kitchens.• Obviously, you have to wear quite a lot of protective clothing to minimise the risk of getting injured.• A better day today, Miss Lavant wrote in her diary, quite a bit of sunshine.• There has been quite a lot of talk recently about adding enzymes to help the carp digest our sophisticated carp baits.• By no means, Watson; even now quite a few scientists continue to doubt.

→ quite a lot/bit/few at quite(1)

quite a fewChinese

quite a few