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

• We ate handfuls of bittersweet chocolate chips and licked peanut butter off spoons.
  我们吃光一把又一把甜中带苦的巧克力片，把勺子上的花生酱舔得干干净净。
• A Christian emperor, who lived centuries ago, once said: "The three handfuls of water poured over my head in baptism are worth more to me than the crown that sits on my head."
  几个世纪前有一位基督徒皇帝曾经说：“洗礼仪式中浇在我头上的三捧水，比我头上的皇冠更宝贵。”
• 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 soil mix flew into the trays.
  几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。
• 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。
• Add two handfuls of soil for every half square meter of bedding material and mix well.
  每半平方米垫料添加2把土并将其拌匀。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。