Think of a hand holding a loose handful of small things and swinging it outward. The things do not go down in a pile; they part in the air and land apart, each one where chance takes it. What you get is a thin covering with gaps in it, spread wider than any pile would be. Every use of strew keeps some part of that: the swing of the hand, the look of the ground afterwards, or that same look moved onto something you cannot touch, such as a page full of mistakes.
From the word’s history
From Old English strewian, to strew or scatter, related to Dutch strooien and German streuen, and going back to a root meaning to spread or scatter. The oldest recorded meaning is already the modern picture: things spread out rather than gathered.
來自古英文 strewian（撒、散布），跟荷蘭文 strooien、德文 streuen 同源，更早的字根意思是「攤開、散開」。也就是說，最古老的意思本來就是今天這個畫面：東西是攤開的，不是聚起來的。
Wiktionary 'strew' (verb) etymology, supplied in packet; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:213452184:33082
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
strewverb/stɹuː/
- 1
datedTo distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
- to strew sand over a floor
- The files had been strewn all over the floor.
- 2
archaicTo cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
- Leaves strewed the ground.
- The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
- 3
archaicTo spread abroad; to disseminate.
- She may strew dangerous conjectures.
- 4
To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
- error-strewn
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。