记忆方法
记忆“handful”可以采用视觉联想法。想象手里拿着一个满满的手掌（hand），里面的东西（ful）很多，尽管体积小但内容丰富，从而形成一个“少量但充足”的印象，这样就能记住“handful”表示“一把，一小撮”的意思。
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词族 · handful
词形变化
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
- 仅有几个人回到临近地区工作。
- 2. 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。
- 3. A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.
- 少数几个旁观者站在现场观看。
- 4. He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.
- 他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。
- 5. Steve barely said a handful of words during the first half hour.
- 史蒂夫在前半小时里没说几句话.