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 few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was selling snowballs in the street in New York from small to x-large in a row, little teeny ones graduating to big handfuls.
他在纽约卖从小到大的雪球，小小的倒慢慢滚到像手那么大的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。