| 单词 | sprawl |
| 释义 | sprawl I. intransitive verb 1. a. archaic b. < the car slowly fell on its side and two figures sprawled out — Irwin Shaw > 2. < could sprawl on her back in the little patch of grass — Elizabeth Janeway > < a child … sprawls across her knees — Laurence Binyon > < the headmaster … was sprawled out in an easy chair — Grace Metalious > 3. < bushes are … allowed to sprawl as they will — Fletcher Steele > < the city sprawls without apparent logic or plan to the west, north, and south — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < this novel undeniably sprawls — Sean O'Faolain > transitive verb 1. < took a chair, sprawled out his legs — Erle Stanley Gardner > 2. < sprawls its … winding river across the state line — American Guide Series: Texas > < languidly sprawled his signature over the document at her urging > II. 1. < sent him down in a long sprawl — Vincent McHugh > < toppled backward to a sprawl on the pavement — Scott Fitzgerald > 2. < a bare and shadeless sprawl of adobe barracks — Harvey Fergusson > < the increasing sprawl of the curriculum — E.L.Vance > < the rich sprawl of her hair — William Faulkner > 3. dialect < chaps as hadn't the sprawl to go a-soldiering — Flora Thompson > |
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