英汉词典

1. 几个;少数
    A handful of people or things is a small number of them.

    e.g. He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar...
           他打量着吧台那边零星的几个顾客。
    e.g. 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。

2. 一把
    A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.

handful的近义词

    e.g. She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
           她抓起一把沙子，让它从指缝里一点点漏下来。

3. 难管的人（尤指孩子）
    If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control.

handful的近义词

    e.g. Zara can be a handful sometimes.
           扎拉有时很难管教。