handfuls
英 [ˈhændfʊlz]
美 [ˈhændˌfʊlz]
n. 一把(的量); 用手抓起的数量; 少数人(或物); 难以控制的人(或动物)
handful的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-SING 几个;少数
Ahandful ofpeople or things is a small number of them.- He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...
他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。 - One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
春天的一个早上，几位有望投资者聚集在昆西。
- He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...
- N-COUNT 一把
Ahandful ofsomething is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.- She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
她抓起一把沙子，让它从指缝里一点点漏下来。
- She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
- N-SING 难管的人（尤指孩子）
If you say that someone, especially a child, is ahandful, you mean that they are difficult to control.- Zara can be a handful sometimes.
扎拉有时很难管教。
- Zara can be a handful sometimes.
双语例句
- I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress, for she was removing its contents by handfuls.
我打断她，把枕头拖开，把破洞贴着被褥，因为她正大把大把地把里面的东西向外掏。 - The boys fell to their knees and began to scoop up handfuls of water.
男孩子们跪下用手把水舀起来。 - A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。 - More research backing up the cholesterol-lowering benefits of eating nuts indicates that for most people, consuming two handfuls of nuts a day appears to work better than one.
越来越多的研究表明吃坚果可以降低胆固醇。对于大多数人来说，每天吃两把坚果的效果比吃一把更好。 - Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
满了一把，得享安静，强如满了两把，劳碌捕风。 - We would jump on to the wagon and come away with handfuls of dripping chips.
我们跳上车，抓起一把湿湿的冰屑跑开了。 - He was lifting up handfuls of leaves and throwing them at her. She was laughing and egging him on
他抓起一把把叶子扔向她，她大笑着鼓动他。 - A Christian emperor, who lived centuries ago, once said: "The three handfuls of water poured over my head in baptism are worth more to me than the crown that sits on my head."
几个世纪前有一位基督徒皇帝曾经说：“洗礼仪式中浇在我头上的三捧水，比我头上的皇冠更宝贵。” - He was selling snowballs in the street in New York from small to x-large in a row, little teeny ones graduating to big handfuls.
他在纽约卖从小到大的雪球，小小的倒慢慢滚到像手那么大的。 - A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured door of the next room then and through the night.
一阵冰雹砸在窗子上，随即冷雨接踵而至。风撞击着隔壁房间那不算结实的门，就这么撞了一夜。