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a spatter of [substance]
spatter 作名词时常用单数，表示溅在表面上的少量液滴或斑点。
There was a spatter of mud on his trousers.
他的裤子上溅了几点泥。
喷溅；飞溅
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喷溅；飞溅
a spray of droplets hitting a surface
There was a spatter of mud on his trousers.
他的裤子上溅了几点泥。
喷溅或洒落在表面上的液滴。
A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
溅在表面上的物质斑点。
A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
液滴撞击表面的声音。
The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
类似液滴撞击表面的一系列爆裂声。
A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
After the paint can fell, there was a spatter of blue paint across the floor.
油漆罐倒下后，地板上有一片蓝色油漆的溅痕。
We heard the spatter of rain against the window all night.
我们整晚都听到雨点打在窗户上的噼啪声。
A spatter of confetti fell onto the table.
桌上落了一小片五彩纸屑。
spatter 作名词时常用单数，表示溅在表面上的少量液滴或斑点。
There was a spatter of mud on his trousers.
他的裤子上溅了几点泥。
这里 the spatter of 指液滴撞击表面的声音，而非液滴本身。
The spatter of rain on the window kept me awake.
雨点敲打窗户的噼啪声让我无法入睡。
Not this
There was spatter of blood on the wall.
Use this
There was a spatter of blood on the wall.
spatter 在这里是可数名词单数，表示“一小片溅洒的液体”，前面需要不定冠词 a。中文没有冠词，学习者容易直接省略；加上 a 才符合英语可数名词单数的用法。
Not this
The wall had many spatter of mud.
Use this
The wall had many spatters of mud.
spatter 是可数名词，复数形式为 spatters。中文名词没有复数变化，学习者容易在 many/several 后漏掉 -s；此处指墙上有多个泥点，必须用复数。
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血迹飞溅
The detective studied the blood spatter on the wall.
侦探研究了墙上的血迹飞溅。
油漆溅点
There was paint spatter on the floor.
地板上有油漆溅点。
泥浆溅渍
Her boots were covered in mud spatter.
她的靴子上沾满了泥点。
油星飞溅
Wipe the grease spatter from the stove.
擦掉炉子上的油渍。
飞溅形态
The blood spatter pattern revealed the position of the victim.
血迹飞溅形态揭示了受害者的位置。
溅痕
The walls had spatter marks from the accident.
墙上留下了事故造成的溅痕。
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联想：spatter含spat（spit的过去式），想象唾沫星子四溅成液滴，即“喷溅”。
语域：neutral 常见场景：烹饪时油滴飞溅、雨天车辆驶过泥水喷溅、刑侦现场血迹喷溅分析 名词 spatter 通常表示液体小滴溅落在物体表面的动作或其结果，语境比较中性，日常描述和正式书面语中都可以使用。选择该词时，多强调液体飞溅的瞬间或痕迹，而语气上不带明显的正式/口语差异。
这些词都和 spatter /ˈspætə/ 押韵：拼写上都含 -atter，发音都是 /ætə/（美式口音里常为 /ætər/）。注意拼写相近但音不同的词：sputter /ˈspʌtə/、glitter /ˈɡlɪtə/、better /ˈbɛtə/ 都不是 spatter 的韵脚，因为元音不同。
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