pepper

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pepper2 verb [transitiveT]

1 SPREADif something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it 在…上大量撒；使…布满

be peppered with something

a speech peppered with amusing stories

穿插了许多有趣故事的演讲

The surface of the Moon is peppered with craters.

月球表面布满陨石坑。

n Grammar

Pepper is usually passive in this meaning.

2 PMWif bullets pepper something, they hit it several times 连续射击

Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.

机枪的火力不断攻击大楼的正面。

3 pepper somebody with questions American EnglishAmE to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other 连珠炮似的向某人提问

Reporters peppered him with questions.

记者们连珠炮似的向他发问。

Examples from the Corpus

pepper somebody with questions• At every stop, reporters peppered her with questions.• As the doctor tends the grandfather, the young man peppers him with questions.• Later, students peppered King with questions.• The justices peppered the attorneys with questions.

4 DFto add pepper to food 给〔食物〕加胡椒粉

Pepper the steak well.

将胡椒粉均匀地撒在牛排上。

peppered salami

加了胡椒粉的萨拉米香肠

Examples from the Corpus

pepper• There are great ones peppered all over the division.• Thorns pricked his hands, and his back felt as if it were being peppered by poison darts.• Over the years these walkabouts have led to a stream of inventions that now pepper construction sites all over the city.• Maiden's structure as a book is different, it is peppered with diary entries of the race and pictures.• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.

be peppered with something• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.• A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.• Our worst years were peppered with the very real misery of violence and abuse when that scream turned into a row.• Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.• His scores were peppered with witty indications and funny titles.

Origin pepper1

Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi

pep·per1 nounpepper2 verb →n GRAMMAR1

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