handful
英 ['h?n(d)f?l; -f(?)l]
美 ['h?nd,f?l]
英文詞源
- handful (n.)
- Old English handful "as much as can be held in the open hand;" see hand (n.) + -ful. Also a linear measurement of four inches, a handbreadth (early 15c.). Meaning "a small portion or part" is from mid-15c. Figurative meaning "as much as one can manage" is from 1755; figurative expression have (one's) hands full "have enough to do" is from late 15c. Plural handfulls. Similar formation in German handvoll, Danish haanfuld.
雙語例句
- 1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
- 僅有幾個人回到臨近地區工作。
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- 2. 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。
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- 3. A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.
- 少數幾個旁觀者站在現場觀看。
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- 4. He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.
- 他打量著吧臺那邊零星的幾個顧客。
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- 5. Steve barely said a handful of words during the first half hour.
- 史蒂夫在前半小時里沒說幾句話.
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