handful
n. 少數,少量; 一把(的量); 難以控制的人(或動物); 棘手事
A handful of people or things is a small number of them.
He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...
他打量著吧檯那邊零星的幾個顧客。
One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
春天的一個早上,幾位有望投資者聚集在昆西。
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,讓它從指縫裡一點點漏下來。
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.
扎拉有時很難管教。
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.
凱文戴維斯非常難防但希臘人並沒處於下鋒,而是每個頭球都爭搶成功.
Better one handful with tranquillity handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
滿了一把、得享安靜、強如滿了兩把、勞碌捕風.
Their Vimy, a replica a 1919 British bomber, would prove a handful to fly.
他們的飛機是仿製1919英國的維美轟炸機.事實證明, 想讓這架飛機順利飛行可不容易.
We invited 30 people, but only a handful came.
我們邀請了30人, 但是隻到了幾個人.
Only a handful of production ventures were subsequently approved and their impact has been limited.
隨後,只有少數製作公司獲得批准成立,而它們的影響也受到了限制.