| 单词 | straggling |
| 释义 | straggling (once / 1483 pages) adj If a group is straggling, it's spread out and moving slowly. A straggling group of students going inside after recess might need to be herded and encouraged to move toward the door. You might watch geese flying south for the winter, moving in perfect formation, and then far behind spy a straggling group of less organized birds. When something's straggling, it is lagging behind and sprawling out in various directions. It comes from the verb straggle, or "wander from the proper path" as of 1400. It's believed to come from a Scandinavian root, related to the Norwegian word stragla, "to walk laboriously." WORD FAMILYstraggling: stragglingly+/straggle: straggled, straggler, straggles, straggling, straggly/straggler: stragglers USAGE EXAMPLESAfter the San Jose rally in early June, protesters bullied and spat on straggling Trump supporters. The New Yorker(Jul 04, 2016) In these senses, Torres-García, who became a cantankerous old man in a straggling white beard and a long overcoat, was a model Latin American. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) After the San Jose rally in early June, protesters bullied and spat on straggling Trump supporters. The New Yorker(Jul 04, 2016) adj spreading out in different directions straggling branches Syn rambling, sprawling, straggly untidy not neat and tidy |
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