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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The dozens of energy ministers, oil company chief executives and handfuls of government officials who assembled at the hastily-called meeting managed to agree on very little, while the offer of an extra 2 00000 B/ D from their host also achieved next to nothing.
  许多能源部长、石油公司首席执行官和一些政府官员出席了这次匆忙召集的会议，但基本上未能就任何议题达成一致，主办国沙特阿拉伯日增产20万桶的提议也几乎毫无成效。
• 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。
• 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。
• Men must be stirred up, pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them in terrible handfuls.
  应当鼓动这些人，推搡他们，用解救自身的利益鞭策他们，用真理的光去刺他们的眼睛，用大量骇人的光明，大把大把地投向他们。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。