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bucketful

/buhk-it-fool/US // ˈbʌk ɪtˌfʊl //

一箩筐,一箩筐的,一大堆,满满一桶

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural buck·et·fuls.

    • : the amount that a bucket can hold: a bucketful of water.

Examples

  • If he thinks a dish needs more salt, he adds it not by the pinch but by the bucketful.

  • Fortunately, Patrick Page displays it by the bucketful in the wonderful “All the Devils Are Here,” his one-man walk-through of some of the nastiest pieces of work in the canon.

  • She ran to the well and drew a bucketful of clear cold water, which she carried to the cabin.

  • Richard examined every bucketful of earth as he pulled it np.

  • If they should happen to want another bucketful of water we're lost men.

  • As he hurried away to the public-house, white with ire, he met his gamekeeper coming in with a bucketful of fish fresh caught.

  • We did gather a great many, about a bucketful, and threw them into the rain-pool, where some of them now are.