often passive to hit something many times and in many different places 连续密集地射击；扫射 | Bullets peppered UN planes. 子弹扫射联合国的飞机。 |
| pepper sth with sth They peppered his car with machine-gun fire. 他们用机关枪扫射他的汽车。 |
| | 1a | to be in many different places all over a surface 布满；比比皆是 | | pepper sth with sth His chin was peppered with grey stubble. 他的下腭上长满了密密匝匝的灰色胡子茬。 | |
| | 1b | to fill something such as a speech or piece of writing with a lot of examples of something （演讲、文章等）充满…，满篇都是… | | pepper sth with sth a letter peppered with spelling mistakes 一封满篇拼写错误的信 | |