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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Add two handfuls of soil for every half square meter of bedding material and mix well.
  每半平方米垫料添加2把土并将其拌匀。