handful
英 ['hæn(d)fʊl; -f(ə)l]
美 ['hænd,fʊl]
英語の語源
- 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.
例文
- 1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
- 近隣地域に戻って仕事をしている人は数人しかいません。
- 2.One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
- 春の朝、いくつかの投資家が昆西に集まる見込みだ。
- 3.A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.
- 少数の傍観者が現場に立って見ている。
- 4.He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.
- 彼はカウンターの向こうに点在している何人かの客を見ていた。
- 5.Steve barely said a handful of words during the first half hour.
- スティーブは前半に何も言わなかった。
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