- 1aC1
/ˈwaɪdspred/
Happening or existing in many places, or among many people.
普遍 / 廣泛
核心畫面
Picture a stain spreading across a map until it covers most of it. The word is built from wide + spread, so it is not about how bad or how strong something is — only about how far across places and people it has reached.
可以想成：地圖上一塊污漬慢慢暈開，最後蓋住大半張圖。這個字就是 wide（廣）加 spread（散開）拼起來的，所以…更多收起
可以想成：地圖上一塊污漬慢慢暈開，最後蓋住大半張圖。這個字就是 wide（廣）加 spread（散開）拼起來的，所以它談的不是嚴不嚴重、強不強，只談「範圍鋪到多遠、多少人碰到」。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
widespreadadj/ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/
- 1
Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- widespread belief
- widespread criticism
- 2
Spread far apart.
- Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。