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

• 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。
• A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured door of the next room then and through the night.
  一阵冰雹砸在窗子上，随即冷雨接踵而至。风撞击着隔壁房间那不算结实的门，就这么撞了一夜。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are two handfuls of axes on the ground.
  地上有两把斧头。