handful的意思|handful的解释-里氏词典

handful ['hændful]

n. 少数, 一把, 棘手事

That child is quite a handful.
那孩子很难管教。
We invited twenty people, but only a handful of them came.
我们邀请了20 个人，但只来了寥寥数人。
He picked up a handful of gravel and drew back his arm to throw."Stop it, Peter, " Lucy called."What do you think you are doing? For shame, leave them alone."
他抓起一把石子，扬起胳膊就要扔。“住手，彼得。”露西叫道：“你为什么要这样？真丢脸，把石子放下。”

handful

[ noun ]

a small number or amount

<noun.quantity>

only a handful of responses were received

the quantity that can be held in the hand

<noun.quantity>

handful \hand"ful\ (h[a^]nd"f[.u]l), n.; pl. {handfuls}
(h[a^]nd"f[.u]lz). [AS. handfull.]
1. As much as the hand will grasp or contain. --Addison.

2. A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.]

Knap the tongs together about a handful from the
bottom. --Bacon.

3. A small quantity or number.

This handful of men were tied to very hard duty.
--Fuller.

4. A person, task, or situation, which is the most that one
can manage; as, my two-year-old is a handful.
[PJC]

{To have one's handful}, to have one's hands full; to have
all one can do. [Obs.]

They had their handful to defend themselves from
firing. --Sir. W.
Raleigh.

The ancient tradition of eating matzo at Passover has sustained the handful of matzo makers that have dominated the business for decades.
American Baby is one of just a handful of magazines that use a computerized binding process known as selective binding.
So far, all but a handful of UAW local leaders have refused to ask their members to take vacations en masse during a scheduled two-week shutdown to begin July 20.
Eastern Europe has only a handful of super-fancy hotels and most of them don't come close to the four-star hotels of the West.
He claims they've been unable to muster more than a handful for protest marches and haven't delayed his plans a day.
Most global, 24-hour trading has been dealer to dealer, with the exception of a number of the large Japanese stocks and a handful of U.S. issues that trade in Tokyo, London and the U.S.
A study of office workers near the Walnut Creek station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in northern California found that only a handful used mass transit.
Yemen is among a handful of countries supporting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
A handful of pickets were outside the hotel.
He praised the university, near Cape Town, as South Africa's "most potent academic institutional dissident." In the past decade, the university has increased its black enrollment from a handful to 13 percent of the 11,500 students.
Until the early 1980s, transplant surgery was an experimental procedure confined to a handful of hospitals where doctors battled, usually in vain, against the human immune system's awesome power to reject foreign invaders, especially other human tissue.
Vietnam is one of a handful of countries with which the United States does not maintain diplomatic relations.
The only prescription drugs now covered by Medicare are a handful of particularly expensive ones such as anti-rejection medication for organ transplant patients.
The closed-end fund, with assets of about $200 million, is the largest of a handful of vehicles giving U.S. investors entry to the strictly regulated Korean stock market.
Only a handful of the planes are in commercial service, all of them in Europe.
They are among only a handful of icons surviving from the first centuries of Christianity.
A handful of House members reported free trips to participate in charity golf tournaments.
An investor's only other option is to turn to a handful of small investment firms that make a fragmented and highly inefficient secondary market in partnership interests.
Their closest confidants for the past quarter-century have been the handful of men they recruited from O&Y's auditors.
Bush had suggested taking money away from a handful of domestic programs to pay for his program.
Only a handful of hardliners have taken part in the protests and support for them has dwindled in recent days.
There are a handful of businessmen and women in France whose personalities are so powerful that they are deemed by the media to have earned the epithet of le grand patron.
The company said Wednesday that only a "handful" of staffers would be eliminated.
As a result, First National Bank of Chicago, the main unit of First Chicago Corp., and a handful of smaller banks cut their prime rate.
Moslem fundamentalists, who boycotted previous local elections and the last parliamentary elections in 1987, are seeking to capture at least a handful of key local councils.
Only a handful of companies are willing to discuss their bonus plans, but ad agencies say dozens more have put such programs in place.
Vietnamese have sailed by the tens of thousands to ports of asylum in non-Communist southeast Asia since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, but only a handful had previously asked to go back.
Mr. Daly himself has a handful of small, golf-related endorsement contracts and is already considering several new opportunities, Mr. Mascatello says.
But he added that it still "isn't clear" whether a Europe-wide joint venture with Ogilvy will work, or won't work, or whether it will work only in a handful of countries.
The ministry has said some agents were arrested, but it has not given a number, and only a handful have been convicted.

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