| 单词 | straddle |
| 释义 | straddle (strædəl ) Word forms: straddles , straddling , straddled 1. verb If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it. He sat down, straddling the chair. [VERB noun] Synonyms: sit astride, bestride, mount, sit with legs either side of 2. verb If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it. A small wooden bridge straddled the dike. [VERB noun] Salcey Forest straddles the Buckingham-Northamptonshire border. [VERB noun] Synonyms: span, cross, bridge, vault 3. verb Someone or something that straddles different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all. Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire. [VERB noun] She's a writer who straddles two genres - she writes online games as well as literary novels. [VERB noun] Translations: Chinese: 跨坐 Japanese: 足を広げる |
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