We use a bit (of) or bits (of) to refer to quantities. The phrases can refer to both abstract and concrete things. They are an informal alternative to some, or a piece of or pieces of:…
Piece words and group words
Piece words make it possible to talk about a single unit or units of something which is seen as uncountable. Piece words include words such as piece, bit, item, article. We normally use them with of. We can use them in the singular or the plural.…
Piece words
Piece words make it possible to talk about a single unit or units of something which is seen as uncountable. Piece words include words such as piece, bit, item, article. We normally use them with of. We can use them in the singular or the plural.…
Idioms
be a bit much
be a bit of all right
a bit of fluff/stuff/skirt
a bit of rough
a bit on the side
get the bit betweenyourteeth
not a bit of it
be in bits
bits and pieces
bit
verb
uk/bɪt/us/bɪt/
past simple ofbite
（bite 的过去式）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Biting, chewing & swallowing
bite
biter
champ
chew
chomp
crunch
dunk
gnaw
lick
masticate
mastication
munch
nibble
non-biting
peck
peck atsomething
rumination
suck
unbitten
a bit
phraseinformal
B2
ashortdistanceorperiodoftime:
一小段距离；一小段时间
I'm just going outforabit.Seeyoulater.我正要出去一小会儿，回头见。
Can youmoveup abit?请你移一点，好吗？
I'llseeyouinabit.
I'llwaitabitandseeif she comes.
Could youmoveyourchairabit,please?
We'llstayhere abitandseewhathappens.
Why don't werestabitandeatourlunch?
See also
bitnoun(AMOUNT)
a bit...
phrase
A2
slightly:
稍微，有点儿
Thedressis abittoobigfor me.这件衣服我穿有点儿大。
That was abitsilly, wasn't it?那有点儿蠢，对吗？
I'm abitnervous.我有点儿紧张。
I washopingthere'd be somefood- I'm abithungry.我希望能有些吃的——我有点儿饿了。
We use a bit (of) or bits (of) to refer to quantities. The phrases can refer to both abstract and concrete things. They are an informal alternative to some, or a piece of or pieces of:…
Piece words and group words
Piece words make it possible to talk about a single unit or units of something which is seen as uncountable. Piece words include words such as piece, bit, item, article. We normally use them with of. We can use them in the singular or the plural.…
Piece words
Piece words make it possible to talk about a single unit or units of something which is seen as uncountable. Piece words include words such as piece, bit, item, article. We normally use them with of. We can use them in the singular or the plural.…
Idioms
be a bit much
be a bit of all right
a bit of fluff/stuff/skirt
a bit of rough
a bit on the side
get the bit betweenyourteeth
not a bit of it
be in bits
bits and pieces
bit
verb
uk/bɪt/us/bɪt/
past simple ofbite
（bite 的过去式）
bit| American Dictionary
bit
noun[C]
us/bɪt/
bitnoun[C](PIECE)
asmallpieceor asmallamountof something:
little bits ofpaper
We need every bit ofevidencewe canfind.
Weshoweda little bit onvideotape.
Could youtalka bit(= for ashortperiod)aboutyourchildhoodexperiences?
A bit or a little bit canmeanslightlyor to somedegree:
Wefoundthedinnera little bit of adisappointment.
bitnoun[C](HORSE)
apieceofmetalput in a horse’smouthtoallowthepersonridingit tocontrolitsmovements
bitnoun[C](COMPUTER)
thesmallestunitofinformationin acomputer,representedby either 0 or 1
Since the image synthesizer has a 7-bitresolution for the spatial phase, it permitted gratings to be displayed at 128 distinct phases.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The unquestionable fact is that intruders took most of the objects from the chamber and left the broken bits and bones exposed to the elements.
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When the riff is put back within the context of the entire song, however, things get abitmore interesting.
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In the current investigation, being of the second type, things look abitdifferent.
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Those practices provide bits of information of a partial, prima facie contradictory, and antecedently unsystematized nature.
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With abitof practice, it is usually possible to "read off" an inference algorithm from a set of typing rules in syntax-directed form.
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The pronoun it might have been abitawkward here followed by plus.
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This is to stretch their normal usage abit: 'preference' is usually reserved for comparative attitudes, preferring something over something else.
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The case of series connection is abitless trivial.
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This representation is furthermore abitmore space economical.
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Similarly, abitof work on editing the figures would have helped readability.
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This result is abitdisappointing since the cbn encoding turns out to be more refined than the cbv encoding.
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One encodes the positions and values of the nonzero coefficients asbitstrings by standard devices (run-length coding and so forth).
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Some conductors even downshift abit(or a lot) and make the accented notes very pesante.
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In order to bring greater unity to this volume, the editors could have exercised abitmore editorial discipline over individual contributions.
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Collocationswithbit
bit
These are words often used in combination withbit.
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bit of advice
He gave thisbitofadvice.
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bit of confusion
There seems to be abitofconfusionin this work between a revolutionary condition, a revolutionary outcome, and a period of consolidation.
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bit of controversy
It had quite abitofcontroversyin it and it lasted for 28 minutes.
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