handfuls

美 [ˈhændˌfʊlz]英 [ˈhændfʊlz]
  • n.一把(的量);少数人(或物);用手抓起的数量;难以控制的人(或动物)
  • handful的复数
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  • 1
    N-SING 几个;少数
    A handful of people or things is a small number of them.

    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
    N-COUNT 一把
    A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.

    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.

    Zara can be a handful sometimes.

    扎拉有时很难管教。

  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. 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。

  3. Her children can be a real handful .

    她的孩子们有时很难管教。

  4. Only a handful of people came .

    只有少数几个人来了。

  5. He grabbed a handful of hair and jerked at it .

    他抓住一把头发猛拉。

  6. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity

    仅有几个人回到临近地区工作。

  7. 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。

  8. The band are playing a handful of shows at smaller venues .

    乐队要在小一点的场馆举办几场演出。

  9. Only a handful of firms offer share option schemes to all their employees .

    只有少数几家公司向所有员工提供股票期权方案。

  10. Frank emptied a handful of loose change on the table

    弗兰克将一把零钱撒在桌子上。

  11. A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching .

    少数几个旁观者站在现场观看。

  12. He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar

    他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。

  13. The little lad was a real handful . He was always up to mischief

    这个小家伙真是难管教,他总是搞恶作剧。

  14. 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。

  15. I 'd taken a handful of uppers .

    我吃了几片兴奋剂。

  16. By the time he was 15 , Scott had gigged with a handful of well-known small bands .

    到15岁的时候,斯科特已经与几支闻名遐迩的小乐队同台演出过。

  17. Zara can be a handful sometimes .

    扎拉有时很难管教。

  18. Only a handful of people were dead set on following him .

    死心塌地跟他走的只是一小撮。

  19. They constitute but a handful of the number .

    他们只不过是其中的一小撮。

  20. Only a handful of patrons come to this theatre every day .

    这个剧院的座位一天也没上几个人儿。

  21. She brought a handful of rice out of the bag and showed it to me .

    她从袋子里掏出一把米让我看。

  22. Beyond those books and a handful of newspaper clippings and magazine stories , winter has nothing .

    除了那些书和少数报章剪辑以及杂志报道以外,温特一无所有。

  23. Tom grabbed up a handful of snow and shoved it down his sister 's collar .

    汤姆抓起一把雪便往妹妹的衣领里塞。

  24. A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels .

    近年来,有一小部分诉讼是指控公司使用误导性的环保标签。

  25. Retail prices for a handful of tomatoes at local markets have risen from $ 0 . 50 to $ 2.50 .

    当地市场上几个西红柿的零售价已经从0。5美元涨到2。5美元。

  26. According to Mark Saul , the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America , not a single African-American or Hispanic student --- and only a handful of girls --- has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence .

    根据美国数学协会竞赛主任马克·索尔的说法,在50年的数学竞赛史中,除几个女孩外,没有任何一个非裔美国人或西班牙裔学生参加过数学奥林匹克小组。

  27. A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail — and after years of research , neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it .

    有少数人几乎能回忆起他们生活中每天的大量细节——经过多年研究之后,神经科学专家终于开始了解他们是怎么做到的。

  28. We invited 30 people , but only a handful came .

    我们邀请了30人,但是只到了几个人。

  29. The first is a handful of ocular diseases like pigmentary glaucoma .

    首先,改变眼部黑色素的是眼部疾病,如青光眼(患者瞳孔内出现青绿色的反光)

  30. The date has only dipped into late March a handful of times in recorded history .

    根据记载,历史上只有几次在三月末进入盛花期。