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。 - 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。 - Such snippets encode handfuls of the most basic operations that computers perform: loading a number into memory, for instance, and then adding two numbers together.
这些片段编码充斥计算机执行的最基本的操作之中：比如加载一个数字到内存中，然后两个数相加等。 - A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。 - 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。 - Opposition fighters, divided into numerous groups, varying from large battalions of a thousand to handfuls of men, get far fewer weapons than they had hoped.
自由军的战士们也分成了无数的派别，既有人数众多的大军，其中每营有1000人；也有十几个人的小队。他们收到的武器远少于期望。 - 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。 - There had been sudden ominous showers in the night, with rain like handfuls of gravel flung on the roof.
夜里突然下了几场预示不祥的阵雨，一把把碎石般的雨点被抛到屋顶上。 - All day he toiled on untiringly, and by the evening he had succeeded in extracting ten handfuls of plaster and fragments of stone.
他不知疲倦地整天工作着，到了傍晚时分，他已经挖出了十把水泥、石灰和碎石片。 - 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。