handful双解释义

1. 一把，一握，一小撮
2. 少数，少量，几个，寥寥无几，屈指可数
3. 难控制的人
4. 麻烦事，棘手的事
5. 用手抓起的数量
6. 5年徒刑
7. 五，五个

1. a small number or amount;

   "only a handful of responses were received"
   

2. the quantity that can be held in the hand

1.几个;少数
Ahandful of people or things is a small number of them.

handful什么意思

e.g. He surveyed thehandful of customers at the bar...
他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。
e.g. One spring morning ahandful 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。

2.一把
Ahandful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.

e.g. She scooped up ahandful 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.难管的人（尤指孩子）
If you say that someone, especially a child, is ahandful, you mean that they are difficult to control.

e.g. Zara can be ahandful sometimes.
扎拉有时很难管教。

1. 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。
2. We invited 30 people, but only a handful came.
   我们邀请了30个人,但是只到了几个人。

• mere〔small〕 handful极少数

• a handful of rice一把米
• a handful of students少数学生
• a handful of warmongers一小撮战争贩子