单词 | spatter |
释义 | spat·ter I. transitive verb 1. < spatter the floor with grease > 2. < spatter blood > < spatter mud on one's clothes > 3. < the bare floor spattered with moonlight — Amy Lowell > < green tweed spattered with white silk flecks — New Yorker > < mistakes and misrepresentations spattered throughout the whole article — Times Literary Supplement > 4. < as an advocate, he must praise the man whom, a year before, he had spattered with ignominy — J.A.Froude > < satire … has an awkward way of spattering its author — Listener > intransitive verb 1. 2. a. < by hitting the ferrule of the brush against the opposite wrist and causing dots of color to spatter upon the setting — H.F.Helvenston > < spray from one of the hoses spattered over the longshoremen — Vernon Pizer > b. < earth damp and fragrant from the dew which spatters from the overhanging trees — Tom Marvel > < water-stream blows … and spatters into the basin with a light tinkling — Amy Lowell > II. 1. a. b. c. 2. a. < clean mud spatters off clothing > < wipe grease spatters off the wall > b. < a spatter of rain > < a spatter of applause > < heavy artillery fire and a spatter of infantry raids — Current History > < a continual spatter of musketry fire — Kenneth Roberts > 3. West |
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