strew

Word family

strew /struː/ verb (past tensepst strewed, past participlepp strewn /struːn/ or strewed) [transitiveT]

1 SPREADto scatter things around a large area 撒，散播

be strewn with something

The street was strewn with broken glass.

街上满是碎玻璃。

be strewn around/about/over etc something

clothes strewn across the floor

散落在地板上的衣服

n Grammar

Strew is usually passive in this meaning.

2 strewn with something writtenLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT containing a lot of something 充满某事物

conversation liberally strewn with swear words

满是脏话的交谈

Examples from the Corpus

strewn with something• His room was strewn with books and papers.• Now, outside tightly packed row houses in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, the streets are strewn with debris.• We walked across the street, which was strewn with gum wrappers and cigarette butts.• The track-bed was weed-ridden and strewn with rubbish.• Hyde Park was a green beach strewn with sunbathers.• Lafayette Square was strewn with the stuff of deconstruction: moving vans, cherry pickers, lumber and paper.• But however great their desire, the path to arms control and detente was strewn with unanticipated obstacles.• Body bags lay off to one side of the big intersection, while the corridors leading off were strewn with wreckage.

3 literarySPREAD to lie scattered over something 散布于，点缀于

Flowers strewed the path.

落花铺满小径。

Examples from the Corpus

strew• Diving below the dusky water's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor.• Odd pieces of broken and split machinery were strewn about or propped against the walls.• There was socialist literature strewn about.• Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia.• I went into the bedroom first and saw all the drawers pulled out, the clothes strewn everywhere.• Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.• Now, outside tightly packed row houses in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, the streets are strewn with debris.

be strewn with something• His room was strewn with books and papers.• Now, outside tightly packed row houses in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, the streets are strewn with debris.• The yard was strewn with garbage.• We walked across the street, which was strewn with gum wrappers and cigarette butts.• The room was badly ventilated, and the floor was strewn with nut shells and orange peel.• Splitting such obvious assets as the matrimonial home may be strewn with problems, but what about an accrued pension fund?• Serban's work is strewn with symbolism.• Lafayette Square was strewn with the stuff of deconstruction: moving vans, cherry pickers, lumber and paper.• But however great their desire, the path to arms control and detente was strewn with unanticipated obstacles.• Body bags lay off to one side of the big intersection, while the corridors leading off were strewn with wreckage.

Origin strew

Old English strewian

strew verb →n GRAMMAR1

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