(noun.) a haphazard distribution in all directions.
(verb.) distribute loosely; 'He scattered gun powder under the wagon'.
(verb.) sow by scattering; 'scatter seeds'.
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双语例句
Only then are they like now, and with four of these you can make them scatter. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
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·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
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.科学通论.
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. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Or do they employ these your darling manufacturers, and so scatter it again all over the nation? 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
He must have been one of a patrol scattered out in these hills. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Each estrada includes about one hundred of the scattered Heveas. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
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.科学通论.
Iron filings scattered over a magnet arrange themselves in definite lines. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
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. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
She runs to the pantry for a roll, and she stands on the door step scattering crumbs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
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. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The clear, cold sunshine glances into the brittle woods and approvingly beholds the sharp wind scattering the leaves and drying the moss. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
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. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
I am thinking, he remarked quietly, whether I shall add to the disorder in this room by scattering your brains about the fireplace. 威尔基·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. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
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.科学通论.
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.科学通论.
We will not perish unrevenged--and mighty will our avenger be, when he descends in visible majesty, and scatters destruction among you. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.