intersperse
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they intersperse | |
he / she / it intersperses | |
past simple interspersed | |
past participle interspersed | |
-ing form interspersing |
- be interspersed with/in something
to put something in something else or among or between other things 散布;散置;点缀 Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。 Interspersed in the narrative are the personal stories of several important women architects. 叙事中穿插着几位重要女建筑师的个人故事。 a scattering of alpine flowers interspersed among crags of weathered rock 散布在风化岩石峭壁间的零星高山花朵 a series of short films, liberally interspersed with commercial breaks 一系列短片,大量穿插商业广告
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘diversify (something) by introducing other things at intervals’): from Latin interspers- ‘scattered between’, from interspergere, from inter- ‘between’ + spargere ‘scatter’.