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

• 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。
• A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
  几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。
• More research backing up the cholesterol-lowering benefits of eating nuts indicates that for most people, consuming two handfuls of nuts a day appears to work better than one.
  越来越多的研究表明吃坚果可以降低胆固醇。对于大多数人来说，每天吃两把坚果的效果比吃一把更好。
• There are two handfuls of axes on the ground.
  地上有两把斧头。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。