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

• 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。
• While walking and crossing patches of ample berries, we grabbed handfuls and ravenously put them in our mouths to quench the hunger.
  时而经过或者穿过一小片灌木丛时，我们会抓一小撮浆果塞进嘴里缓解一下饥饿感。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。