Scatter
['skætə] or ['skætɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of scattering.
(noun.) a haphazard distribution in all directions.
(verb.) distribute loosely; 'He scattered gun powder under the wagon'.
(verb.) sow by scattering; 'scatter seeds'.
戈登編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
(v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
(v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
(v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.
迦勒編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Strew, sprinkle, throw about loosely.[2]. Dissipate, disperse, diffuse, distribute, spread.
手打:丽贝卡
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Strew, sprinkle, disperse, spread, broadcast, dissipate, disseminate,propagate, squander
ANT:Collect, accumulate, heap, gather, save, husband
黛布拉整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to disperse in all directions: to throw loosely about: to strew: to sprinkle: to dispel: to put to flight: to drop: to throw shot too loosely.—v.i. to be dispersed or dissipated.—n. Scatt′erbrain a thoughtless giddy person.—adjs. Scatt′er-brained giddy; Scatt′ered widely separated: wandering: distracted: irregular.—ns. Scatt′erer one who or that which scatters; Scatt′er-good a spendthrift; Scatt′er-gun a shot-gun; Scatt′ering something scattered: dispersion: that which has been scattered: the irregular reflection of light from a surface not perfectly smooth.—adj. dispersing: rare sporadic: diversified.—adv. Scatt′eringly in a dispersed manner: here and there.—ns. Scatt′erling (Spens.) one who has no fixed abode: a vagabond; Scatt′ermouch any Latin or Levantine in Pacific slang.—adj. Scatt′ery dispersed: sparse: few and far between.
埃文編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Only then are they like now, and with four of these you can make them scatter. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They could plough lanes in infantry, but they could not easily smash and scatter it if it was sturdy and well drilled. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The last three types, called concave lenses, scatter parallel rays so that they do not come to a focus, but diverge widely after passage through the lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I don't lock up my drawer, Mr. Hartright, he said, and I don't say that I may not scatter your brains about the fireplace yet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Or do they employ these your darling manufacturers, and so scatter it again all over the nation? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He must have been one of a patrol scattered out in these hills. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Each estrada includes about one hundred of the scattered Heveas. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Iron filings scattered over a magnet arrange themselves in definite lines. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She runs to the pantry for a roll, and she stands on the door step scattering crumbs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There was a movement behind her, a scattering of steps and voices: it was evident that the party about the tea-table was breaking up. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The clear, cold sunshine glances into the brittle woods and approvingly beholds the sharp wind scattering the leaves and drying the moss. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Just as they were a few yards from the shore, the rocket flashed skyward with a sharp whizz, scattering trains of sparks in its ascent. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I am thinking, he remarked quietly, whether I shall add to the disorder in this room by scattering your brains about the fireplace. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Even the scattering groups of armed shepherds we met the afternoon before, tending their flocks of long-haired goats, were wanting here. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The surface of the paper, although smooth in appearance, is in reality rough, and scatters the light in every direction. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The surface of the paper or photograph is rough, and as a result, it scatters the beam in every direction. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We will not perish unrevenged--and mighty will our avenger be, when he descends in visible majesty, and scatters destruction among you. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
整理:劳埃德