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    handful查询结果如下:

    音标:['hændfʊl]
    名词复数:handfuls 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:n.【表示量】一把
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    n.
    ①[C][表示量]一把;
    a handful of rice (letters)
    一把米(信).
    ②少数;小撮;
    a handful of reactionaries
    一小撮反动派.
    only a handful of us
    我们中的少数人.
    ③[口语]难以控制的人(物);
    The child is quite a handful.
    这小家伙实在管不住.
    -扩展释义
    n.
    一把,一小撮,麻烦的事
    n.
    1. 一把,一握[C][(+of)]2. 少数,少量[C][(+of)]3. 【口】难控制的人(或动物);麻烦事[S]
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句1. we’ve received only a handful of letters’

    反义词系列1
    -handful的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    (informal) Somewhat handy.
    (nonstandard) Of or relating to the hand; handly. || (nonstandard) Like or resembling a hand, especially in form or appearance.
    With hands joined; hand in hand. || (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
    (informal) Prone to touching other people with one’s hands, especially inappropriately. || (golf) Moving the hands and wrists excessively when making a stroke or swing,
    “Pictures are surfacing of the two kissing and getting all handsy with one another.”
    “She comes back and says that he got a bit too handsy for her, so she dumped him and walked out.”
    “The teen stars were photographed holding hands, laughing, and getting handsy with each other.”
    Easy to use, useful. || Nearby, within reach. || (dialect) dexterous, skilful || Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
    “At least there’s a phone handy to text for an ambulance when they finish up under a 40-tonne truck.”
    “This handy and useful volume, Authors, Texts, Issues, is meant to fill the void by supplying such material.”
    “The fast bowler, who is also handy with the bat, was the only youngster from the area to be picked for the county team following trials last month.”

    名词 变体/同根词

    handful的复数形式
    “Into this torrential sewer had unthinkable generations of ulsios pushed their few handsful of dirt in the excavating of their vast labyrinth.”
    The quality or state of being handy.
    “When he displays his handiness with a temperamental car, he is offered a job on the spot.”
    “A handiness for visualizing in six dimensions or for abstracting the motion of a pendulum favors an agility of mind but apparently has little to do with anything else.”
    “Expert native authorities have a very high opinion of the handiness of Hazara slave girls.”
    (childish) hands || flirtatious or lascivious touching
    One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession || (in combinations) Having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
    “I was entering the left hander, thinking about stopping to see what the trouble was, when the rear tyre blew out, coming off the bead entirely.”
    “A hard-hitting right hander and an off-spinner, he has another string to his bow, being a very good fielder.”
    “After that there is, in all probability, the veteran Wayne Arthurs, another tall left hander with a belting serve.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. || (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. || (transitive, obsolete) To manage. || (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on. || (transitive,极少使用) To pledge by the hand; to handfast. || (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl. || (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
    “I was just about to bend over and pick it up when who should hand it to me but John himself.”
    “At the end of a long line was Santa Claus, who would hand presents to the children after greeting them.”
    “Nor do I intend to hand the will over to the court until the last possible moment.”
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