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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.
    1. He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...
      他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。
    2. 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。
  • N-COUNT 一把
    Ahandful ofsomething is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.
    1. 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。
  • 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.
    1. Zara can be a handful sometimes.
      扎拉有时很难管教。

双语例句

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Dany wedged herself into that corner, making a nest of sorts by tearing up handfuls of the grass that grew around the ruins.
    丹妮缩进一个角落,扯下废墟周围的一些杂草,并给自己搭起了小窝。
  • A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
    几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。