| 单词 | sprawl |
| 释义 | sprawl (sprɔːl ) Word forms: sprawls , sprawling , sprawled 1. verb If you sprawl somewhere, you sit or lie down with your legs and arms spread out in a careless way. She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up. [VERB preposition/adverb] They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing. [VERB preposition/adverb] He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: loll, slump, lounge, flop Sprawl out means the same as sprawl. He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed. [VERB PARTICLE preposition] 2. See also sprawled 3. verb If you say that a place sprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land. The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres. [VERB preposition] If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future. [VERB preposition] The sprawling city contained some 4m people. [VERB-ing] 4. uncountable noun You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way. The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people. 5. verb If something sprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction. Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about. [VERB adverb] He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess. [VERB-ing] Collocations: suburban sprawl Cities were, on the whole, agreeably compact: they had not yet acquired the radiating shockwaves of suburban sprawl that we find today. Times, Sunday Times Extensions make more efficient use of existing infrastructure than do new builds, while preserving green space in cities and limiting suburban sprawl. Times,Sunday Times First they gave us the tower-block estate, then they created suburban sprawl. Times, Sunday Times The confusing, twisting thoroughfares, cul-de-sacs and traffic traps of suburban sprawl have been banished from the site altogether. Globe and Mail Suburban sprawl eats up farmland and forests. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 伸开四肢坐着, 扩张 Japanese: 大の字に寝そべる, スプロール現象 |
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