handfuls是什么意思？

handfuls

• n. 一把（的量）( handful的名词复数 )，用手抓起的数量，少数人（或事物），难以控制的人（或动物）；

例句

• He reached gloomily into one of his trees and picked handfuls of fruit. 他闷闷不乐地把手伸到一棵树上,摘下一把水果来.
• We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. 我们将是作为一撮尘土,几根枯骨参加将来的生活.
• 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。

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。