dispersed
dispersed — 動詞
1. to move outward in many directions across a wide area, or to push people or thin
驅散；散開
使人群或物質向外擴散
to move outward in many directions across a wide area, or to push people or things outward in this way, so that they no longer form a group.
Police on horseback dispersed the crowd outside the embassy within minutes.
騎警在幾分鐘內驅散了大使館外的群眾。
transitive: disperse + crowd (people-object)
The morning fog slowly dispersed as the sun rose over the harbour.
太陽升上港口時，晨霧慢慢散開了。
intransitive: weather/substance subject
After the final song, the festival audience dispersed into the surrounding side streets.
最後一首歌結束後，音樂節觀眾散往周圍的小巷。
intransitive + into + place phrase
Strong winds dispersed the smoke from the factory across three neighbouring towns.
強風把工廠的煙吹散到鄰近三個城鎮。
transitive: physical substance spread by a force
The teacher asked the children to disperse around the playground for the fire drill.
老師要孩子們為了消防演習散開到操場各處。
intransitive: people scatter on instruction
- disperse a crowd
- disperse the protesters
- fog disperses
- smoke disperses
文法句型
disperse + noun
disperse + into/across + place
用法筆記
Subject of the intransitive form is usually a group (crowd, fog, smoke, animals); transitive subject is usually a force or authority (police, wind, soldiers) acting on that group.
常見錯誤
dispersed — 形容詞
1. describing people or things that are placed far apart from each other over a lar
分散的；散布
分散在廣大區域而非集中一處
describing people or things that are placed far apart from each other over a large region, rather than gathered together in one place.
The Romi family has dispersed relatives in five different countries.
Romi 家有分散在五個不同國家的親戚。
attributive: dispersed + noun (relatives)
Rural villages in this region are widely dispersed across the mountain valleys.
這一帶的鄉村廣泛地分散在群山的山谷裡。
predicative: be + widely + dispersed
Élise studies how dispersed populations of polar bears communicate over long distances.
Élise 研究分散在各地的北極熊族群如何進行長距離溝通。
attributive: dispersed + populations (scientific context)
The company has a geographically dispersed workforce spread across twelve time zones.
這家公司有橫跨十二個時區、地理上分散的員工團隊。
compound: geographically dispersed (typical collocation)
After the war, the once close community became dispersed throughout the region.
戰後，原本緊密的社區散布到整個區域各地。
predicative + throughout + place
- widely dispersed
- geographically dispersed
- thinly dispersed
- dispersed population
- dispersed workforce
- scattered
more everyday; same meaning but neutral register
- spread out
informal phrasal alternative
- concentrated
gathered in one area rather than spread
- clustered
grouped tightly together
文法句型
dispersed + plural noun
be + widely + dispersed
用法筆記
Often paired with adverbs like 'widely', 'thinly', or 'geographically' that specify the pattern of spread. Distinguish from the verb past-participle 'dispersed' (the crowd was dispersed by police) — here it describes a stable state, not the action of scattering.
常見錯誤
同根字
- disperse動詞C1
- dispersal名詞C2
- dispersion名詞C2
常見搭配
常用片語
- disperse a crowd
- widely dispersed
- geographically dispersed