释义 |
fistfulfist‧ful /ˈfɪstfʊl/ noun [countable] - Armed with a fistful of papers you now have to join the queue to fetch the elusive gadget.
- Every time I tried to pull myself up, my fistfuls of rockweed ripped out.
- Finally I seized his scruff, took a fistful of fur.
- I fetched another fistful of miniatures and spent the rest of the flight telling her about my philosophy.
- One had to take a fistful of money to buy a few things at the market.
- The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.
- What he fails to add is that nowadays information is as leaky as a fistful of sand.
an amount that is as much as you can hold in your handfistful of a child clutching a fistful of toffees |