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
- 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。 - 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。 - There are two handfuls of axes on the ground.
地上有两把斧头。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。