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
- 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。 - People would pick up handfuls of gravel from the bottom of the streams and sort out the diamonds.
都是从河床底上捧起一大把一大把的砾石，然后从中挑拣出钻石来。 - Istalif was once a holiday resort of kings, famed for its vineyards and orchards, swhereslocals would greet visitors with handfuls of mountain flowers.
伊斯塔利夫曾一度是要人们的度假胜地，以葡萄园和果园著称，客人来访时，当地人会用一束束山花迎接客人。 - 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。 - For as long as I've known her she has had a policy on adding handfuls of olives to her stuffing.
自我认识她起，我就知道她有一个惯例&她总会往填料里加少许橄榄。 - 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 dozens of energy ministers, oil company chief executives and handfuls of government officials who assembled at the hastily-called meeting managed to agree on very little, while the offer of an extra 2 00000 B/ D from their host also achieved next to nothing.
许多能源部长、石油公司首席执行官和一些政府官员出席了这次匆忙召集的会议，但基本上未能就任何议题达成一致，主办国沙特阿拉伯日增产20万桶的提议也几乎毫无成效。 - 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。 - 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。 - While walking and crossing patches of ample berries, we grabbed handfuls and ravenously put them in our mouths to quench the hunger.
时而经过或者穿过一小片灌木丛时，我们会抓一小撮浆果塞进嘴里缓解一下饥饿感。