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little use — небольшая польза, немного пользы
little used — малоезженый
of little use — малопригодный
be little used — мало использоваться
be of little use — быть не очень полезным; быть мало полезным
to be of little use — быть мало /не очень/ полезным
receive little use as — мало использоваться
this phrase is little used outside business letters — эта фраза употребляется почти исключительно в деловой переписке
little-used car — мало подержанный автомобиль
little-used book — малочитаемая книга
Автоматический перевод
малопригодный, маленькая польза, мало использовать
Перевод по словам
little — маленький, малый, небольшой, немного, мало, кое-что, немногое
use — использование, применение, пользование, использовать, пользоваться, применять
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He had a tantrum when he found his little sister using his model paints.
У него началась истерика, когда он обнаружил, что младшая сестра пользуется его красками для моделей.
We were shocked to hear the little boy using bad language in front of his mother.
Мы были в ужасе, когда услышали, как этот маленький мальчик ругается матом на глазах своей матери.
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Your ability to write and argue is of little use if you get your facts wrong (=are wrong about something). 
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“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires
in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump wrote,
finding little use for empathy or truth.
Who «finding little use for…»? Trump? Trump’s tweet message? the Author?
asked Nov 20, 2018 at 8:31
Literally «has little use for/of» means that someone doesn’t often need to use something.
The tallest man in the world finds little use for a ladder.
Sometimes the expression might be used as an ironic understatement (litotes). Here it means «doesn’t use at all»
A fish has little use for a bicycle!
The participle phrase has the same subject as the main clause. Trump is finding little use for empathy.
So here it means Trump was not using «empathy» or «truth» when he wrote his tweet. So it means that the tweet by Trump was a cruel lie.
answered Nov 20, 2018 at 8:43
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According to Collins dictionary, use as in definition 2:
- singular noun
If you have a use for something, you need it or can find something to do with it.
You will no longer have a use for the magazines. [+ for]
They both loved the fabric, but couldn’t find a use for it. [+ for]
So, Trump wrote that, while finding little use for empathy or truth.
answered Nov 20, 2018 at 11:30
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No one seems interested in denying the sway of the market even over modernism’s littlest magazines and most avant-garde authors.
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Agrarianism had taken up their time, but gained little success.
Thus, the king had little opportunity to claim his servitium there; however, this does not mean that the obligation did not exist.
He did little to stop the spread of the prosperity gospel.
Only in the large does it assume august proportions: but the large does not dignify the little, which is a part of it.
The most exigent of moralisms can be tacitly parochialized with little, if any, intentional effort.
A little while after this the woman married her lover.
However, little attention has been given to the question of precisely how such large-scale political movements bring about changes in a canon of literary texts.
There is little or no interest in generalizability.
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We do not begin our lives as little epistemologists but as crying masses.
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