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
- 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。” - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。