Question

disperse v.分散；散开 (1) 警方驱散群众。(2) 风吹散了天上的云。(3) 敌人不得不分散藏身于洞穴之中。(4) 人群纷纷散开。(5) 孩子们放假了。(6) 你的钱花得太大手大脚了。(7) 警察朝天开枪，企图驱散人群。 Imagine yourself standing on a basketball court holding a cup packed tight with marbles. If you turn it over, the marbles will disperse across the floor, moving away from you in all directions. Another word for this is scatter. Don't confuse this word with disburse, which means to distribute money. Remember that false friends disperse when you cease to disburse.

Accepted Answer

英 [dɪ'spɜːs] 美 [dɪ'spɜːrs] (1) The police dispersed the crowd.(2) The wind dispersed the cloud from the sky.(3) The enemy had to disperse and hide in caves.(4) The crowd dispersed.(5) The children disperse for the holidays.(6) You disperse money too liberally.(7) The police fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd. To make a crowd at a party disperse, you could take away the food, turn off the music and ask for volunteers to clean up. Disperse is to spread out people or things, making them move in different directions. 1[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）分散；（使）散布 When something disperses or when you disperse it, it spreads over a wide area.   [V]  [V n]The oil appeared to be dispersing...油好像在扩散。The intense currents disperse the sewage...急流冲散了污水。Because the town sits in a valley, air pollution is not easily dispersed.因为小镇坐落在山谷中，空气污染不太容易散去。2[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）散开；分散；驱散 When a group of people disperses or when someone disperses them, the group splits up and the people leave in different directions.   [V n]  [V]Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators...警方鸣枪并使用催泪弹来驱散示威者。The crowd dispersed peacefully after prayers.祈祷仪式过后，人们静静散去。

英语单词	disperse
英美音标	英 [dɪ'spɜːs] 美 [dɪ'spɜːrs]
中文释义	v.分散；散开
英语例句	(1) The police dispersed the crowd. (2) The wind dispersed the cloud from the sky. (3) The enemy had to disperse and hide in caves. (4) The crowd dispersed. (5) The children disperse for the holidays. (6) You disperse money too liberally. (7) The police fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
中文例句	(1) 警方驱散群众。 (2) 风吹散了天上的云。 (3) 敌人不得不分散藏身于洞穴之中。 (4) 人群纷纷散开。 (5) 孩子们放假了。 (6) 你的钱花得太大手大脚了。 (7) 警察朝天开枪，企图驱散人群。
vocabulary简明	To make a crowd at a party disperse, you could take away the food, turn off the music and ask for volunteers to clean up. Disperse is to spread out people or things, making them move in different directions.
vocabulary扩展	Imagine yourself standing on a basketball court holding a cup packed tight with marbles. If you turn it over, the marbles will disperse across the floor, moving away from you in all directions. Another word for this is scatter. Don't confuse this word with disburse, which means to distribute money. Remember that false friends disperse when you cease to disburse.
柯林斯解释	1 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）分散；（使）散布 When something disperses or when you disperse it, it spreads over a wide area. [V] [V n] The oil appeared to be dispersing... 油好像在扩散。 The intense currents disperse the sewage... 急流冲散了污水。 Because the town sits in a valley, air pollution is not easily dispersed. 因为小镇坐落在山谷中，空气污染不太容易散去。 2 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）散开；分散；驱散 When a group of people disperses or when someone disperses them, the group splits up and the people leave in different directions. [V n] [V] Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators... 警方鸣枪并使用催泪弹来驱散示威者。 The crowd dispersed peacefully after prayers. 祈祷仪式过后，人们静静散去。

Disperse Police Crowd People Directions Dispersed Fired Air