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外刊例句
- Interspersed among these were a number of people, and also some decoys, such as a heat lamp, a microwave oven and a laptop.
当中散布着一些人，也放置了一些干扰物，如保温灯、微波炉和笔记本电脑。
——《经济学人》 - Their promises interspersed with kisses, smacking the air.
他们的誓言中夹杂着亲吻，飞扬在空中。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] scatter among or between other things; place here and there
[动词] 散布在其他事物之中或之间；到处放置
深入解读
Intersperse 是一个与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）推送过的 disperse 同词根 spers, spars （散开）的单词，其中 intersperse 由前缀 inter- （在……中间）+词根 spers + e 构成。
从词源上来看， intersperse 最早于16世纪60年代由拉丁语 interspersus （散布的、散落的、撒落的）进入英语，用作动词表示“散布、散置”，主要指某个事物到处放置或者散布在其他事物之中或之间，常意味着无规律地混入。比如：
- 在柳树中间错落有致地种有桃树。
Peach trees were interspersed among the willows. - 她的笔记散见于整篇课文中。
Her handwritten notes were interspersed throughout the text.
从这个概念出发， intersperse 还被用来引申指“点缀”，常用搭配 intersperse sth with sth ，侧重指间隔地用其他事物使一个或多个事物多样化。比如：
- 晴间或有阵雨
sunshine interspersed with showers - 点缀着花坛的草坪
a lawn interspersed with flower beds - 他的帮凶讲阿拉伯语时间或夹杂些法语短语。
His accomplice occasionally interspersed his Arabic with French phrases.
名著用例
Harry followed Tonks into a dive. They were heading for the largest collection of lights he had yet seen, a huge, sprawling, crisscrossing mass, glittering in lines and grids, interspersed with patches of deepest black.
哈利跟着唐克斯俯冲下去。他们朝着一大片光亮飞去，哈利从未见过这么多灯光汇集在一起，纵横交错，星罗棋布，向四面八方延伸，其间点缀着一个个深黑色的方块。
出自英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第五本《哈利·波特与凤凰社》（Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix）。
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