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

• 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。
• Such snippets encode handfuls of the most basic operations that computers perform: loading a number into memory, for instance, and then adding two numbers together.
  这些片段编码充斥计算机执行的最基本的操作之中：比如加载一个数字到内存中，然后两个数相加等。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
  几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。