spread
[NOUN, VERB]
spreads
1. [SING 单数型名词] 扩散 , 传播
The spread of something is when something gradually affects or reaches a larger and larger area or more and more people.
双语例句
例：The greatest hope for reform is the gradual spread of information.
改革的最大希望就是信息能得以逐渐传播。
例：Thanks to the spread of modern technology, trained workers are now more vital than ever.
由于现代技术的普及，当代训练有素的工人比以往任何时候都至关重要。
2. [SING 单数型名词] 蔓延
The spread of something is when it moves outwards in all directions so that it covers a larger area.
双语例句
例：The situation was complicated by the spread of a serious forest fire.
一场严重的森林火灾的蔓延使得形势更加复杂。
3. [SING 单数型名词] 均分
The spread of something such as wealth or work is its even or equal distribution.
双语例句
例：There are easier ways to encourage the even spread of wealth.
有一些更简单的方法可以促进财富的平均分配。
4. [SING 单数型名词] （想法、兴趣等的）广泛 , 多样
A spread of ideas, interests, or other things is a wide variety of them.
近义词
双语例句
例：A topic-based approach can be hard to assess in schools with a typical spread of ability.
因为学生的能力通常差异很大，基于话题的教学方法在学校里评估起来可能很难。
5. [C 可数名词] （书籍、杂志、报纸等的）横贯两版的篇幅
A spread is two pages of a book, magazine, or newspaper that are opposite each other when you open it at a particular place.
双语例句
例：There was a double-page spread of a dinner for 46 people.
有一篇横贯两版的、由46人参加的宴席的照片。
6. [SING 单数型名词] （股票买卖的）价差
Spread is used to refer to the difference between the price that a seller wants someone to pay for a particular stock or share and the price that the buyer is willing to pay.
双语例句
例：Market makers earn their livings from the spread between buying and selling prices.
炒股者靠赚取股票买卖的价格差而生活。
NOUN. 名词
spread out
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 铺开（同）spread）
Spread out means the same as spread.
双语例句
例：He extracted several glossy prints and spread them out on a low coffee table.
他抽出几张光面照片，将它们摆在一张矮咖啡桌上。
2. [PHRASAL 短语] 伸展开（同）spread）
Spread out means the same as spread.
双语例句
例：David made a gesture, spreading out his hands as if he were showing that he had no explanation to make.
大卫做了个手势，双手一摊，似乎表示他没有什么可解释的。
3. [PHRASAL 短语] 散开
If people, animals, or vehicles spread out, they move apart from each other.
双语例句
例：Felix watched his men move like soldiers, spreading out into two teams.
费利克斯看着他的下属像士兵一样移动，散开成两队。
4. [PHRASAL 短语] （城市、森林等）延伸 , 扩展
If something such as a city or forest spreads out, it gets larger and gradually begins to covers a larger area.
双语例句
例：Cities such as Tokyo are spreading out.
像东京这样的城市正在扩展。
PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词
spreads , spreading , spread
1. [T 及物动词] 铺开
If you spread something somewhere, you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be seen or used easily.
双语例句
例：She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it.
她把一块浴巾铺在沙地上，然后躺了上去。
2. [T 及物动词] 伸展开（手臂、手、手指、腿等）
If you spread your arms, hands, fingers, or legs, you stretch them out until they are far apart.
双语例句
例：Sitting on the floor, spread your legs as far as they will go without overstretching.
坐在地板上，尽可能分开双腿，但不要过度拉伸。
3. [T 及物动词] 摊 , 抹 , 敷
If you spread a substance on a surface or spread the surface with the substance, you put a thin layer of the substance over the surface.
双语例句
例：Spread the mixture in the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes.
将该混合物抹在蛋糕烤盘里，烤30分钟。
4. [I 不及物动词] 使扩散 , 扩散 , 传播
If something spreads or is spread by people, it gradually reaches or affects a larger and larger area or more and more people.
近义词
反义词
双语例句
例：The industrial revolution, which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe, is now spreading across the world.
几百年前发轫于欧洲的产业革命现正在向全球扩散。
例：the sense of fear spreading in residential neighbourhoods.
在住宅区蔓延的恐惧感。
例：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。
5. [I 不及物动词] 使蔓延 , 蔓延
If something such as a liquid, gas, or smoke spreads or is spread, it moves outwards in all directions so that it covers a larger area.
双语例句
例：Fire spread rapidly after a chemical lorry exploded.
一辆装有化学品的卡车爆炸后火势迅速蔓延开来。
例：A dark red stain was spreading across his shirt.
一块暗红色的污渍正在他的衬衫上渗开。
例：In Northern California, a wildfire has spread a haze of smoke over 200 miles.
北加州一场野火的烟雾弥漫了200多英里。
6. [T 及物动词] 分散（于某一时段内）
If you spread something over a period of time, it takes place regularly or continuously over that period, rather than happening at one time.
双语例句
例：There seems to be little difference whether you eat all your calorie allowance at once, or spread it over the day.
无论你是一次性摄入全天的卡路里限量还是在一天内分次摄入，似乎没多大区别。
7. [T 及物动词] 均分
If you spread something such as wealth or work, you distribute it evenly or equally.
双语例句
例：policies that spread the state's wealth more evenly.
更加平均地分配国家财富的政策。
VERB. 动词
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