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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - And he measured ten double handfuls of pearls, diamonds, and other gems, many of which, mounted by the most famous workmen, were valuable beyond their intrinsic worth.
然后他又捧了捧宝石，其中有许多是当时最有名的匠人镶嵌的，且不说其内在的价值，单是那种艺术化的嵌工就已非常名贵了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。