| 词汇 | be a handful |
| 释义 | be a handfulbe a handful informalCONTROL someone, especially a child, who is a handful is difficult to control 是难管教[控制]的人〔尤指孩子〕 She’s a lovely child, but she can be a bit of a handful sometimes. 她是个可爱的孩子，不过有时候会比较难管。 Examples from the Corpus be a handful• In it was a handful of small sherds.• It was a handful of teams from all over the map.• That is a handful of the most visible Salomon mortgage traders on Wall Street.• He's not alone; there are a handful of others who have nowhere else to go.• However, there were a handful of occasions at Cely when her husband's restraining influence was very much a factor.• There is a handful of raw-material exports.• There were a handful of men in the audience when I saw the film.• Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand. → be a handful at handful(2) |
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