handful是一个英语单词，名词，作名词时意思是“少数；一把；棘手事”。
英英释义
handful [ 'hændful ]
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n.
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a small number or amount
"only a handful of responses were received"
同义词： smattering
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the quantity that can be held in the hand
同义词： fistful
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a small number or amount
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
handful /ˈhændfʊl/ CET4 TEM4
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N-SING A handful of people or things is a small number of them. 少数
例：He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar.
他打量着吧台边仅有的几位顾客。
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N-COUNT A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand. 一把
例：She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
她抓了一把沙子，然后让它们从指缝间慢慢漏掉。
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N-SING If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control. 难管的人 (尤指小孩) [非正式]
例：Zara can be a handful sometimes.
扎拉有时会很难管教。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.
少数旁观者站在场地里观看。
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Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
只有少数几个人回到附近地区工作。
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Only a handful of people came.
只有少数几个人来了。
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So when I had a handful of these cases, it seemed to me then there was likely something worth investigating.
VOA: special.2010.02.24
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Just so I get a show of hands: how many people have heard of Roger Bannister? Ok. A handful.
举下手：,多少人听说过他？好的，只有少数。
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My path in life was fundamentally altered by just a handful of courses at this place and this was in fact one of them.
在哈佛所学的一些课程,从根本上改变了我的人生道路,这门课就是其中之一。
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