Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.
机枪的火力不断攻击大楼的正面。
3pepper somebody with questionsAmerican 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, reporterspeppered her with questions.• As the doctortends the grandfather, the young man peppers him with questions.• Later, studentspeppered King with questions.• The justices peppered the attorneys with questions.
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 illegalaliensis peppered withshotgunpellets in a drive-byshooting.• Our worst years were peppered with the very realmisery of violence and abuse when that scream turned into a row.• Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallidcheeks and small chinwere peppered withunsightlyacne.• His scoreswere peppered withwittyindications and funnytitles.
Originpepper1
Old Englishpipor, from Latinpiper, from Greekpeperi