handful
n. 少数,少量; 一把(的量); 难以控制的人(或动物); 棘手事
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。
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。
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。
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。
1. a small number or amount;
2. the quantity that can be held in the hand
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.