| 词汇 | sprinkle |
| 释义 | sprinkle verb[ T ] uk /ˈsprɪŋ.kəl/ us /ˈsprɪŋ.kəl/ C2 to drop a few pieces or drops of something over a surface: 洒;撒 Sprinkle a few herbs on the pizza./Sprinkle the pizza with a few herbs.在比萨饼上撒些香料调味。 figurativeThe speech was liberally sprinkled with (= contained many) jokes about the incident.演讲中多次拿那件事开玩笑。 I sprinkled some sugar on top of the cake. She'd sprinkled coloured sugar strands all over the cakes. I like to sprinkle a little cheese over my pasta. Sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs. Corn tortillas can be cut into strips, fried until golden, and sprinkled with salt - voila! tortilla chips. Spreading and scattering all over the placeidiom bedaub bell bestrew billow dispersion disseminate distribution dotted around dredge dusting encroach on/upon something ramble rambling scattered scatteringly slap something on slather smear smudge sprinkle noun uk /ˈsprɪŋ.kəl/ us /ˈsprɪŋ.kəl/(US alsosprinkling) sprinklenoun (LIGHT FALL)[ Cusually singular ] a very light fall of rain or snow that lasts only a short time小雨;小雪 Precipitation: rain bucket bucket down cloud seeder cloud seeding cloudburst deluge downpour drizzle heaven mizzle pelt piss rain gauge seed shower sun shower torrentially wash wash (something) out wet You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Precipitation: snow & ice sprinklenoun (DECORATION)sprinkles very small pieces of coloured sugar or chocolate used as a decoration on the top of cakes, etc.: （撒在糕饼上用作装饰的细小）彩糖 Scatter sprinkles over the top of the cake and press on them gently so that they stick to the chocolate.在蛋糕面上撒些彩糖并轻轻按下，让它们粘在巧克力上。 sprinkle | American Dictionarysprinkle verb[ I/T ] us/ˈsprɪŋ·kəl/ to scatter a few drops or small pieces of something: [ T ]Sprinkle cheese on the pizza. Someone who says that it is sprinkling means it is raining lightly. sprinkle noun[ C ] us/ˈsprɪŋ·kəl/(alsosprinkling, us/ˈsprɪŋ·klɪŋ/) a light rain: We might get a sprinkle today. Examples of sprinklesprinkle The book has questions sprinkled throughout; these are numbered and set aside from the flow of the text. One of them sprinkles holy water as a ritual gesture. Finally, there was a subset of other programs in which pragmatics topics were reportedly sprinkled throughout or touched on in a number of courses. Lively colors are sprinkled amongst the dirt and gravel. First, one could see a patternless crazy quilt of the capacities sprinkled across species. There are brilliant individual scholars sprinkled over the country, but the overall picture is bleak. Modern editors have liberally sprinkled the interchange with the stage direction 'within'. The text is sprinkled with general observations followed by simplistic aphorisms. The dried chlamydospores were sprinkled over the feed pellets immediately before the animals were allowed to eat. He takes issue with the way it has come to be used as a 'magical mind-dust', sprinkled upon inert objects to bring them to life. The moisture content of the deposition substrate was increased by sprinkling 100 ml of water over the sand in each tray in the artificial burrows. Quotations from those interviews are sprinkled throughout the text, giving it a firsthand quality that is rare in academic works. A substantial number of logically plausible but inappropriate neologisms are sprinkled through the work and distract from the author's presentation. A minor criticism of the presentation is that rather a lot of acronyms are sprinkled around without interpretation. She would publicly don her religious habit and walk into the cell as into her grave, while the presiding bishop sprinkled ashes in her wake. See all examples of sprinkle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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