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单词 astride
释义 astride
I. \əˈ-\ adverb
Etymology: a- (I) + stride (n.)
1. : with one leg on each side
 < women seldom rode astride >
2. : with the legs stretched wide apart
 < standing astride with arms folded >
II. preposition
1. : on or above and with one leg on each side of : bestriding
 < astride a horse >
: straddling
 < her little baby astride her hips — William Beebe >
2. : placed on lying on both sides of
 < established frontier provinces along or astride the river — W.G.East >
 < an enemy roadblock astride his regiment's supply route — New York Times >
3. : extending or stretching over or across (as from one limit to another) : spanning, bridging
 < no single individual stands more firmly astride the history of England from 1906 onwards — Times Literary Supplement >
 < stands astride two worlds — our own and the utterly alien world of the Greenland Eskimos — Jeannette Mirsky >
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