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
- There are two handfuls of axes on the ground.
地上有两把斧头。 - 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。 - 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 few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was lifting up handfuls of leaves and throwing them at her. She was laughing and egging him on
他抓起一把把叶子扔向她，她大笑着鼓动他。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。”