spread
英 [spred]
美[spr?d]
- vi. 传播；伸展
- vt. 传播，散布；展开；伸展；铺开
- n. 传播；伸展
- adj. 伸展的
CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词基本词汇
词态变化
复数:?spreads;第三人称单数:?spreads;过去式:?spread;过去分词:?spread;现在分词:?spreading;
助记提示
1、以字母s开头的单词，多有表示洒、散之意，同时还与洒、散的读音、拼音相契合；比如：scatter, spread, strew, sprinkle, spars-/spers-/sparg-/sperg-.
2. 专家通过大量阅读来向他的学生传播知识。
2. 专家通过大量阅读来向他的学生传播知识。
中文词源
spread 展开，张开，传播，蔓延
来自古英语 spraedan,张开，展开，来自 Proto-Germanic*spreit,展开，散开，来自 PIE*sper, 播撒，散播，词源同 spark,sprawl.引申诸相关词义。
英文词源
- spread
- spread: [OE] Spread is a general West Germanic word, with relatives in German spreiten and Dutch speiden. These point back to a common prehistoric ancestor *spraidjan. Where that came from is not clear, although it may have links with Latin spargere ‘scatter, sprinkle’ (source of English aspersion [16] and sparse [18]) and Greek speírein ‘sow’ (a relative of English sperm, spore, etc).
- spread (v.)
- c. 1200, "to stretch out, to lay out; diffuse, disseminate" (transitive), also "to advance over a wide area" (intransitive); probably from Old English spr?dan "to spread, stretch forth, extend" (especially in tospr?dan "to spread out," and gespr?dung "spreading"), from Proto-Germanic *spreit- (cognates: Danish sprede, Old Swedish spreda, Middle Dutch spreiden, Old High German and German spreiten "to spread"), extended form of PIE root *sper- (4) "to strew" (see sprout (v.)). Reflexive sense of "to be outspread" is from c. 1300; that of "to extend, expand" is attested from mid-14c. Transitive sense of "make (something) wide" is from late 14c. As an adjective from 1510s. Related: Spreading.
- spread (n.)
- 1620s, "act of spreading;" 1690s, "extent or expanse of something," from spread (v.). Meaning "copious meal" dates from 1822; sense of "food for spreading" (butter, jam, etc.) is from 1812. Sense of "bed cover" is recorded from 1848, originally American English. Meaning "degree of variation" is attested from 1929. Meaning "ranch for raising cattle" is attested from 1927.
双语例句
- 1. The conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
- 这种疾病传播的条件已经成熟。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Sex education is also expected to help check the spread of AIDS.
- 人们还希望性教育有助于控制艾滋病的蔓延。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The move follows growing public concern over the spread of the disease.
- 针对公众对该疾病的不断蔓延日益担忧，从而出台了这一举措。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He campaigned for peace and against the spread of nuclear weapons.
- 他为裁军运动和反对核武器扩散而奔走。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He was fed-up with the lies being spread about him.
- 关于自己的流言蜚语满天乱飞，他实在受够了。
来自柯林斯例句