less通常表示更少的，较少的，少量；通常用在不可数名词。fewer通常表示少的，越来越少的，较少的；用在可数名词之前。
less和fewer的区别有什么
1、原型不同：
less的原型是little，fewer的原型是few。
2、用法不同：
less用于修饰抽象、不可数的名词，如：There was much less noise in the park after the children left.孩子们离开后，公园里安静了许多。
fewer用于修饰可数名词，如：The weather became worse and there were fewer climbers.天气变差，爬山的人少了很多。
less和fewer的例句
1. Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers areaccepted as political refugees.
寻求避难者中有不到7%的人被视作政治难民。
2. The report shows that fewer couplesare getting hitched.
报告显示，结婚的人数呈下降趋势。
3. Childbirth now held fewer terrors forher than it once had.
她现在不像原来那样害怕分娩了。
4. less butter/time/importance
较少的黄油 / 时间;次要
5.He was advised to smoke fewercigarettes and drink less beer.
有人劝他少抽烟、少喝啤酒。
