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