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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress, for she was removing its contents by handfuls.
  我打断她，把枕头拖开，把破洞贴着被褥，因为她正大把大把地把里面的东西向外掏。