| 单词 | intersperse |
| 释义 | intersperse (once / 2101 pages) v When you intersperse something, you scatter it with spaces in between, the way you intersperse vegetable seeds along a row in a garden bed. A wallpaper pattern might intersperse polka dots with bright flowers, and a writer might intersperse colorful details throughout an essay on the sword fishing industry. If you place things here and there, at intervals or leaving room between each item, you intersperse them. The Latin root is interspersus, "strewn or scattered," and in the mid-1500s the word intersperse was used mostly to mean "diversify by introducing things at intervals." WORD FAMILYintersperse: interspersal, interspersed, intersperses, interspersing, interspersion+/interspersal: interspersals/interspersion: interspersions USAGE EXAMPLESCyclogeography is an enjoyable account of a hair-raising life as a London cycle courier interspersed with two-wheeled philosophical digressions. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) There are smiles and tickles and popcorn interspersed with on-brand messaging about Messenger bots, internet drones and conference calls. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) All we see are small brick and mud houses interspersed with dry fields. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) 1v introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions Syn|Hypo|Hyper interlard interleave intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in introduce 2v place at intervals in or among intersperse exclamation marks in the text Hypo|Hyper interleave intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location |
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