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
- 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。 - 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。 - Diogenes ate the bread and a few olives squatting down and washed them down with a few handfuls of water scooped from the spring.
戴奥真斯蹲在地上吃面包和几个橄榄，然后从喷泉捧几捧水把吃的东西冲下去。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。” - 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 soil mix flew into the trays.
几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。 - 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。