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handful

英 ['hæn(d)fʊl; -f(ə)l] 美['hænd,fʊl]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词amount fistful small a little modicum few

n. 少数；一把；棘手事

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复数: handfuls;

英英释意

1. a small number or amount;: "only a handful of responses were received"

2. the quantity that can be held in the hand

英文词源

handful (n.): Old English handful "as much as can be held in the open hand;" see hand (n.) + -ful. Also a linear measurement of four inches, a handbreadth (early 15c.). Meaning "a small portion or part" is from mid-15c. Figurative meaning "as much as one can manage" is from 1755; figurative expression have (one's) hands full "have enough to do" is from late 15c. Plural handfulls. Similar formation in German handvoll, Danish haanfuld.

考试真题

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.

A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.

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.

Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.

Retail prices for a handful of tomatoes at local markets have risen from $0.50 to $2.50.

Last October, while tending her garden in mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.

What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.

实用场景例句

Her children can be a real handful.: 她的孩子们有时很难管教。

Only a handful of people came.: 只有少数几个人来了。

a handful of rice: 一把米

Zara can be a handful sometimes.: 扎拉有时很难管教。

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。

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。

He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...: 他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。

Kevin Davies a real handful but the Greek refused to be bullied and won every header.: 凯文戴维斯非常难防但希腊人并没处于下锋,而是每个头球都争抢成功.

Better one handful with tranquillity handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.: 满了一把、得享安静、强如满了两把、劳碌捕风.

Their Vimy, a replica a 1919 British bomber, would prove a handful to fly.: 他们的飞机是仿制1919英国的维美轰炸机.事实证明, 想让这架飞机顺利飞行可不容易.

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

Only a handful of production ventures were subsequently approved and their impact has been limited.: 随后,只有少数制作公司获得批准成立,而它们的影响也受到了限制.

The factory offered to pay compensation to a handful of families whose abutted the factory gates.: 榕屏化工厂同意对农田临近工厂门口的几家农户进行赔偿.

A handful of other countries could make tempting targets.: 一大堆其它国家的公司都会成为诱人的收购目标.

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).

There are also a handful of fully independent development and manufacturing capabilities of companies.: 也是少数几家有完全独立自主开发和制造能力的公司之一.

Pick a handful and tour in the same way.: 同样地摘少数和旅游.

Compared with Ii ying and fan pang , he was a handful of loess with no lights.: 与李膺、范滂相比, 他是毫无光彩的一杯黄土.

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

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.

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.

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

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 rice: 一把米

Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.: 仅有几个人回到临近地区工作。

I'd taken a handful of uppers.: 我吃了几片兴奋剂。

Zara can be a handful sometimes.: 扎拉有时很难管教。

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。