sparse
英 [spɑːs]
美[spɑrs]
- adj. 稀疏的；稀少的
词态变化
比较级: sparser;最高级: sparsest;副词: sparsely;名词: sparseness;
助记提示
1、spars- + -e.
中文词源
sparse 稀少的，稀疏的
来自拉丁语 sparse,散开的，播洒的，来自 spargere,散开，播种，来自 PIE*sperg,播，洒，溅， 来自 PIE*sper,播，洒，词源同 sprinkle,spread,intersperse.引申词义稀少的，稀疏的等。
英英释意
- 1. not dense;
- "a thin beard"
- "trees were sparse"
英文词源
- sparse
- sparse: see spread
- sparse (adj.)
- 1727, from Latin sparsus "scattered," past participle of spargere "to scatter, spread," from PIE root *(s)preg- (2) "to jerk, scatter" (cognates: Sanskrit parjanya- "rain, rain god," Avestan fra-sparega "branch, twig," literally "that which is jerked off a tree," Old Norse freknur "freckles," Swedish dialectal sprygg "brisk, active," Lithuanian sprogti "shoot, bud," Old Irish arg "a drop"). The word is found earlier in English as a verb, "to scatter abroad" (16c.). Related: Sparsely; sparseness.
实用场景例句
- the sparse population of the islands
- 那些岛上零星的人口
牛津词典
- Vegetation becomes sparse higher up the mountains.
- 山上越高的地方植物越稀少。
牛津词典
- The information available on the subject is sparse.
- 这个题目资料匮乏。
牛津词典
- a sparsely populated area
- 人口稀少的地区
牛津词典
- Many slopes are rock fields with sparse vegetation...
- 许多山坡都是石头地，植被稀疏。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He was a tubby little man in his fifties, with sparse hair...
- 他50来岁，头发稀疏，身材矮胖。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The television coverage of the event was rather sparse.
- 电视上对这件事报道得很少.
期刊摘选
- As we drove towards the desert, the vegetation became sparse.
- 我们驱车前往沙漠, 沿途的草木渐渐变得稀疏.
《简明英汉词典》
- His pink scalp gleamed through his sparse hair.
- 他发红的头皮在稀疏的头发下泛微光.
《简明英汉词典》
- Nongzhong loess hilly a brittleness ecology environment with a sparse vegetation cover and severe soil erosion.
- 陇中黄土丘陵区生态环境脆弱,历史时期人为活动强烈,导致生态环境退化与农牧交替频繁.
期刊摘选
- The guards occasionally improved their rather sparse rations by the addition of a little venison.
- 这些卫兵时而要弄点鹿肉来改善一下那低劣的伙食.
辞典例句
- A dry. often sandy region of little rainfall. extreme temperatures and sparse vegetation.
- 下雨很少. 温度极高.植被贫乏的干燥. 通常多沙的地区.
期刊摘选
- The population was sparse.
- 人口稀疏.
期刊摘选
- Compressed sensing is a technique for efficiently sampling signals which are sparse in some transform domain.
- 压缩感测是一种结合压缩及采样的技术,对于在某些变换域有稀疏性质的信号非常有效率.
期刊摘选
- The sparse vegetation will only feed a small population of animals.
- 稀疏的植物只够喂养少量的动物.
《简明英汉词典》
- Numerical topics include dense and sparse linear algebra, N body problems, and Fourier transforms.
- 课程的数学主题包括稠密╱稀疏线性代数 、 N体问题和傅立叶变换.
期刊摘选
- The experienced personnel , enlisted and officers alike , were a sparse lot.
- 有经验的老手, 无论官也好兵也好, 都廖廖无几.
辞典例句
- The trees are sparse.
- 树木稀疏.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The sparse matrix canonical grid ( SMCG ) method is a numerical method that was developed recently.
- 稀疏矩阵规则网格法 ( SMCG ) 是近年来才被提出的一种数值方法.
期刊摘选
- Heath wrote us a letter friendly in tone, sparse in content.
- 希思给我们写了一封语调友善 、 内容空泛的信.
辞典例句
- Sparse matrix indices must be positive integers.
- 稀疏矩阵指数必须是正整数.
期刊摘选
- A fountain appeared in my sight and the building's lighting the windows becomes sparse and weak.
- 喷泉遮住了我的视线,前边楼内的灯光变得稀疏而柔弱.
期刊摘选
- The models in this study address flow behavior in deepwater, sparse well environments.
- 该研究中的模型描述了深海 、 稀疏井眼环境下的潜流运动.
期刊摘选
- He has a sparse beard.
- 他长着稀疏的胡子.
期刊摘选
- Constrained Sparse Spike Inversion is used to obtainacoustic impedance profile in Taixinan basin and Dongsha Islands.
- 针对南海北部台西南盆地和东沙海域的三条测线进行了约束稀疏脉冲反演,从声波阻抗剖面看,台西南盆地较东沙海域更利于形成水合物.
期刊摘选
- In a sparse distributed network, memory is a type of perception.
- 在稀少分布式网络, 记忆是感知的一种.
期刊摘选
- The resulting sparse banded unsymmetric set of equations is solved by using the Gaussian elimination.
- 使用变带宽高斯消去法求解产生的带状稀疏不对称方程组.
期刊摘选
- the sparse population of the islands
- 那些岛上零星的人口
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》