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)
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柯林斯词典

  1. N-SING 几个;少数
    A handful of people 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。
  2. N-COUNT 一把
    A handful of something 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。
  3. N-SING 难管的人（尤指孩子）
    If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control.
    1. Zara can be a handful sometimes.
      扎拉有时很难管教。
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双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. And he measured ten double handfuls of pearls, diamonds, and other gems, many of which, mounted by the most famous workmen, were valuable beyond their intrinsic worth.
    然后他又捧了捧宝石，其中有许多是当时最有名的匠人镶嵌的，且不说其内在的价值，单是那种艺术化的嵌工就已非常名贵了。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. A few handfuls of soil mix flew into the trays.
    几把混合土壤撒进了这些托盘里。
  11. 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。
  12. 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。
  13. A Christian emperor, who lived centuries ago, once said: "The three handfuls of water poured over my head in baptism are worth more to me than the crown that sits on my head."
    几个世纪前有一位基督徒皇帝曾经说：“洗礼仪式中浇在我头上的三捧水，比我头上的皇冠更宝贵。”
  14. Istalif was once a holiday resort of kings, famed for its vineyards and orchards, swhereslocals would greet visitors with handfuls of mountain flowers.
    伊斯塔利夫曾一度是要人们的度假胜地，以葡萄园和果园著称，客人来访时，当地人会用一束束山花迎接客人。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. 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。
  18. There are two handfuls of axes on the ground.
    地上有两把斧头。
  19. 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。
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
  22. He was selling snowballs in the street in New York from small to x-large in a row, little teeny ones graduating to big handfuls.
    他在纽约卖从小到大的雪球，小小的倒慢慢滚到像手那么大的。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
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