little作名词使用时有“否定，微小，没有多少，短时间”的意思;作形容词是“小的，少的，少量”的意思。

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

We have a little bull session after work.
下班后，我们要开一个小的讨论会。

This little bed will do for our youngest daughter.
这张小床我们最小的女儿睡能行。

She is too little to ride a bicycle.
她太小了，不能骑脚踏车。

She walked away and her little heart was broken.
她走开了但是她幼小的心却受伤了。

She stayed here only a little while.
她在这里只停留了很短的时间。

There was little change in their daily lives.
他们的日常生活几乎没有变化。

She shows little appreciation of good music.
她对于好音乐几乎没有欣赏能力。

用作副词 (adv.)

He is little known as an artist.
他是个不出名的艺术家。

Besides, I knew little about it.
再说，我对赛艇运动也了解得很少。

Little does he care whether we live or die.
他一点也不管我们是死是活。

I go there very little now.
我现在难得去那儿。

用作名词 (n.)

The little that I have seen of his work is satisfactory.
他的工作就我所见的那一小部分而言是令人满意的。

Little is known about the effect of life-long drinking.
人们关于终生饮酒的效果却知道的很少。