[N-SING 单数名词]几个;少数 A handful of people or things is a small number of them.
[usu N of n]
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。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]一把 A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.
[usu N of n]
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 单数名词]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.
[INFORMAL 非正式]
Zara can be a handful sometimes.
扎拉有时很难管教。
Oxford
hand·ful/ˈhændfʊl; NAmEˈhændfʊl/noun1[countable ]handful(of sth) the amount of sth that can be held in one hand 一把(的量);用手抓起的数量◆a handful of rice一把米2[singular ]handful(of sb/sth) a small number of people or things 少数人(或物)◆Only a handful of people came.只有少数几个人来了。3a handful[singular ]( informal) a person or an animal that is difficult to control 难以控制的人(或动物)◆Her children can be a real handful.她的孩子们有时很难管教。handfulhandfulshand·ful/ˈhændfʊl; NAmEˈhændfʊl/
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handfulhand‧ful /ˈhændfʊl/ ●●○ noun
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1[countable] an amount that you can hold in your handhandful of The boy picked up a handful of stones and started throwing them at us.2a handful of something a very small number of people or things: There were only a handful of people there.3be a handful informal someone, especially a child, who is a handful is difficult to control: She’s a lovely child, but she can be a bit of a handful sometimes.
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