| 单词 | widespread |
| 释义 | widespread (once / 699 pages) adj Widespread means far-reaching. For years, email was used only by computer programmers and technophiles. It was hard to imagine, back them, how widespread the phenomenon of digital communication would become. An idea that's widespread, is believed by many people, even if it's not true. A person such as Oprah, or Gandhi, or Michael Jackson, who has widespread popularity, is loved by many far and wide. A widespread disease is one that many people have––the flu epidemic of 1919 was deadly and widespread, killing between 50 and 100 million people in every corner of the world. WORD FAMILYwidespread USAGE EXAMPLESLonghorned beetles are a widespread family called Cerambycinae, characterized by antennae often as long as or longer than the beetle’s body. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) But efforts to build a clean-energy infrastructure are not yet widespread. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) In September, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Pawnee and caused widespread property damage. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj widely circulated or diffused a widespread doctrine widespread fear of nuclear war Syn general applying to all or most members of a category or group 2adj distributed over a considerable extent widespread nuclear fallout Syn far-flung distributed spread out or scattered about or divided up |
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