handbreadths中文什么意思

n. 一手宽

[网络] 一手之宽；掌；一掌

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1. it was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3, 000 baths
   代下4:6又制造十个盆、五个放在右边、五个放在左边献燔祭所用之物、都洗在其内但海是为祭司沐浴的。
2. the man followed in a wet black oilskin jacket, like a chauffeur, and face flushed a little . she felt him recoil in his quick walk, when he saw her . she stood up in the handbreadth of dryness under the rustic porch
   守猎人跟在后面，穿着一件象车夫穿的黑油布的给雨淋湿的短外衣，脸孔有点红热，她觉得当他看见了她时疾速的步伐退顿了一下，她在门搪下那块狭小的干地上站了起来，他无言地向地行个礼，馒慢地走上前来，她准备要走开了。
3. they were eloquent in their distress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground, that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again
   不过他们很快发现，原先那堆火已经把他们靠着生火的那根倒在地上的大树干在它弯起离地面有些距离的地方烧得凹进去很深，因此有块巴掌大的地方没有被雨淋湿。于是他们极有耐性地想方设法，从那些有遮掩的树下，寻来些碎叶树皮做火引子，总算又把那堆火救活了。