Scattering

(noun.) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby.

(noun.) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions.

(noun.) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; 'the first scatterings of green'; 'a sprinkling of grey at his temples'.

手打:梅尔瓦

• 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.
• It is these tiny drops which by their refraction and their scattering of light produce the rainbow in the heavens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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