the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
a quantity of small objects flying through the air;
"a spray of bullets"
the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
双语例句
1. Inmates threw bricks at prison officers who were spraying them with a hose.
囚犯们朝那些用水管向他们喷水的狱警们抛掷砖头。
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2. Millions of bees have died in South Carolina during aerial insect spraying operations that were carried out to combat the Zika virus.
为了对抗寨卡病毒，南卡罗莱纳州开展了空中喷洒灭虫的行动，导致数百万蜜蜂死亡。
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3. It is possible that tubes made from animal bones were used for spraying because hollow bones, some stained with pigment, have been found nearby.
有可能是用动物骨头制成的管子来喷洒，因为在附近发现了空心骨头，有些骨头上沾有颜料。
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4. Scientists have now investigated the effects of the spraying of Matacil, one of the anti-budworm agents that is least toxic to insect-pollinators.
科学家们现在已经研究了喷洒灭害威的效果，灭害威是一种抗虫剂，对传粉昆虫的毒性最小。
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5. Modern irrigation devices, each capable of spraying 4.5 million liters of water a day, have produced a landscape dominated by geometric patterns of circular green islands of crops.
6. The question of whether the decrease in plant fecundity caused by the spraying of pesticides actually causes a decline in the overall population of flowering plant species still remains unanswered.
喷洒杀虫剂导致的植物繁殖力下降是否真的会导致开花植物物种总数的下降，这个问题仍然没有答案。
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7. The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.
8. He ran to the top of the building, spraying bullets into shoppers below.
他冲向楼顶，向下面的购物者扫射。
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9. The intensity of the blaze shattered windows, spraying glass on the streets below.
熊熊烈焰烧碎了窗户，玻璃碎片飞溅到了下面的街道上。
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10. Modern irrigation devices, each capable of spraying 4,5 million liters of water a day, have produced a landscape dominated by geometric patterns of circular green islands of crops.
