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A pocketful is as much as a pocket will hold. A child might have a pocketful of sweets or stones; a person might come home with a pocketful of coins. It is a loose amount, not a measured one — pockets differ, and nobody is counting. People also use it in a soft, not-literal way: a pocketful of dreams, a pocketful of trouble, meaning quite a lot, carried around with you. The everyday, physical sense is the one to learn first. You can also say a pocket full of coins in four words; pocketful packs the same idea into one.
一口袋(的量)。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pocketfulnoun
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The amount that a pocket would hold.
- White came to City Hall on Monday morning, entering through a basement window, with a gun and a pocketful of bullets.
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A small or moderate amount.
- This Government came in with a pocketful of promises. Every time the Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) saw two farmers at a crossroads he had five more promises to make.
- Much more than a pocketful of fun awaits in this collection of rhymes and poems!
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。