handful
- n.少数;一把(的量);少数人(或物);难以控制的人(或动物);用手抓起的数量
复数： handfuls
hand n.手 + -ful 名词后缀
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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。
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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。
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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。
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Only a handful of people came .
只有少数几个人来了。
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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。
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Her children can be a real handful .
她的孩子们有时很难管教。
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He grabbed a handful of hair and jerked at it .
他抓住一把头发猛拉。
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Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity
仅有几个人回到临近地区工作。
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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。
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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。
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Frank emptied a handful of loose change on the table
弗兰克将一把零钱撒在桌子上。
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A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching .
少数几个旁观者站在现场观看。
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He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar
他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。
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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。
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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。
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I 'd taken a handful of uppers .
我吃了几片兴奋剂。
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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。
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Zara can be a handful sometimes .
扎拉有时很难管教。
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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。
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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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They constitute but a handful of the number .
他们只不过是其中的一小撮。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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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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）
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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。
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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