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[英] [ˈhændful] [美] [ˈhændˌfʊl] 生词本

n.

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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。

  • 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. 

  • 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。

Noun

1. a small number or amount;

  • "only a handful of responses were received"

2. the quantity that can be held in the hand

1. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
一把好日子胜过一蒲式耳的学问。

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2. Only a handful of people were dead set on following him.
死心塌地跟他走的只是一小撮。

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3. They constitute but a handful of the number.
他们只不过是其中的一小撮。

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4. Tom grabbed up a handful of snow and shoved it down his sister's collar.
汤姆抓起一把雪往妹妹的衣领里塞。

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

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6. 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。

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