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

• Angel, who was filling the vats with his handfuls, suddenly ceased, and laid his hands flat upon hers.
  安琪尔正在用手一捧一捧地帮着往大木桶里装，但他又突然停下来，把自己的一双手放在苔丝的手上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It takes more work than simply throwing handfuls of fertilizer across a field.
  这与在地里一把把抛洒化肥相比工作量更大。
• 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。
• 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。