陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

cluster/ congregate/ convene/ converge/ disband/ disperse/ disseminate/ horde/ infest/ litter/ muster/ overrun/ permeate/ pervade/ proliferation/ propagate/ sparsely/ stack/ venue

1. 「聚集」、「會合」可用congregate、muster或converge。其中，converge尤其強調交通路線在某處的交會或各路人馬在某一指定地點的會合：

•The crowds congregated in the square in front of the palace when they heard the news of the king's death.

•Go and muster all your friends to embark on the campaign.

•The troops mustered on the hill.

•Railway lines seem to converge when one looks at them from a distance.

•The two armies converged on the enemy capital for the last battle of the war.

•The main streets converge on a central square.

2. 「一大批人群」可用horde，一大批人、委員、代表等的「集會」可用convene ，「集會或比賽之地點」叫venue：

•A horde of children ran over the building.

•Hordes of people rushed to see the parade.

•The council convened at 10 o'clock.

•The venue of the big match is the main campus playground.

3. 「一群」生長在一起的動、植物或很靠近的東西叫cluster，「一堆」疊放在一 起的東西叫stack：

•Stars within the same cluster can be made up of different materials and may have formed at different times.

•There was a cluster of fans around him, asking for autographs.

•Some flowers grow in clusters.

•The stack of wood will last the whole winter.

4. 「解散」叫disband，「分散」、「驅散」叫disperse：

•The club has disbanded.

•The officers disbanded the club.

•The dance group disbanded after a farewell performance.

•After school the children dispersed to their homes.

•The wind dispersed the smoke.

•A prism disperses light.

5. 「擴散」、「散播」可用permeate、pervade、disseminate或propagate。若強調擴散的速度很快、量很大（尤其是不好的事物），可用名詞proliferation：

•A warm friendship permeates the sophomore class.

•As the news of the defeat pervaded their country, the people were disappointed.

•The invention of television helped to disseminate learning.

•The political party started a newspaper to propagate its ideas.

•To prevent nuclear proliferation should be a shared and significant goal of humanity.

6. 「亂丟亂扔」叫litter，指帶來麻煩或傷害的人、事、物的「四處蔓延」可用infest或overrun：

•Keep the city clean; don't litter.

•The lawn uncared for was infested with weeds.

•Mice infested the old house.

•The enemy overran the conquered country.

7. 「零星分佈地」叫sparsely：

•Many areas in the States are still sparsely populated.