handful是什么意思？

handful

英[ˈhændfʊl] 美[ˈhændˌfʊl]

• n. 少数，少量，一把（的量），难以控制的人（或动物），棘手事；

复数：handfuls;

例句

• We invited 30 people, but only a handful came. 我们邀请了30人, 但是只到了几个人。
• When you squeeze a handful of snow, the flakes cohere to make a snowball. 你把一团雪捏紧,雪就黏合成雪球。
• A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning. 一点小常识常胜过很多有价值的学问。
• Steve barely said a handful of words during the first half hour. 史蒂夫在前半小时里没说几句话.
• 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。
• You may know by a handful the wholes sack. 窥一斑而知全豹.
• Mazing Run : A great dribbler whose quick turns and dummies are a handful for any defence. 惊人突破-利用灵活转身突破防守.
• I gained him his whole money, and had a handful of guineas in my lap. 我把他所有的本钱全赢回来了, 我膝上还有满把的金币.
• All the trouble is being caused by a handful of malcontents. 这些是非都是由一小撮不满分子搬弄的.
• He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar. 他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。

同义词

• n.
  handful的同义词之：一点,少量,一把
  amount, fistful, small, a, little, modicum, few,
• handful的同义词之：其他释义
  minority,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-SING
  几个;少数
  A handful of people or things is a small number of them.
  例句
  He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar... 他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。 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
  A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.
  例句
  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 a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control.
  例句
  Zara can be a handful sometimes. 扎拉有时很难管教。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  少数
  We invited 30 people, but only a handful came. 我们邀请了30人, 但是只到了几个人。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a small number or amount;
  "only a handful of responses were received"
  2. the quantity that can be held in the hand