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scattershot

/skat-er-shot/US // ˈskæt ərˌʃɒt //UK // (ˈskætəˌʃɒt) //

散射,散弹,分散拍摄,散点

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.

Examples

  • Because as scientists build out these databases with more and more genomes, from creatures both living and extinct, the number of organisms we can identify from a scattershot examination of a single sample just keeps going up.

  • American cookbooks really kicked off in the mid-1800s, and for their first hundred years or so, their recipe formats were scattershot, even within a single title.

  • He takes our knowledge of Williams for granted, revealing crucial parts of her career in a scattershot manner.

  • Before, I’d have to use a scattershot method, typing random scrambled letter strings into OneLook one by one and hoping something would turn up, which could take several hours.

  • Snyder’s new zombie entree The Army of the Dead is too scattershot, perhaps too derivative and definitely too long.