straddles

英 [ˈstrædlz]

美 [ˈstrædlz]

v.  骑; 跨坐; 分腿站立; 跨过，横跨(河流、道路或一片土地); 横跨，同属(不同时期、活动或群体); 两栖于(不同活动)
straddle的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 骑;跨坐;叉开双腿坐
  If youstraddlesomething, you put or have one leg on either side of it.
  1. He sat down, straddling the chair.
     他跨坐在椅子上。
• VERB 横跨，跨越(河流、道路、边境等)
  If somethingstraddlesa river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it.
  1. A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
     一座小木桥横跨在排水渠上。
  2. ...this town that straddles the US-Mexico border.
     这座跨越美国和墨西哥边境的小镇
• VERB 横跨，跨越，同属(不同时期、群体或活动领域等)
  Someone or something thatstraddlesdifferent periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all.
  1. Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire...
     我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。
  2. He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.
     他具有两种文化背景，先是在英国长大，后又皈依了伊斯兰教。

双语例句

• The all-welded, A-frame pylon straddles the deck.
  全焊接的A形框架式的塔柱与桥面叉开。
• I live near where the viaduct straddles the river wye.
  我住在横跨怀河的高架桥附近。
• Now, Optimized dispatch of routes has been performed well in the operation of straddles and automatic terminals in foreign countries.
  目前，路径优化调度在国外的跨运车和自动化码头的作业中已经得到很好的应用。
• An enormous viaduct straddles the river wye.
  一座巨大的高架桥飞跨瓦伊河两岸。
• Mount Fuji is in a national park, straddles two prefectures and is surrounded by five lakes and many towns, including Kawaguchiko.
  富士山是座国家公园，横跨两个县，周边有五个湖泊和诸多城镇，河口湖是其中之一。
• The face of the column forms a very accurate slide. The all-welded, A-frame pylon straddles the deck.
  立柱的正面是非常精密的导轨。全焊接的A形框架式的塔柱与桥面叉开。
• China does not recognise the boundary, and is already extracting gas from a field which straddles it. As a result, buses still suffer significant delays due to traffic congestion in major inter-district traffic corridors.
  而中方不承认这条中间线，并且已经开始在跨线地区开发油气资源。结果，由于主要跨区交通走廊堵塞，巴士车程仍长时间受到阻延。
• Held straddles Modernism and Post-Modernism.
  赫尔德兼备现代主义和后现代主义。
• The East-West geomorphological boundary zone of China straddles between the Tibetan plateau and Yangtze block and forms the first-order morphological and geophysical abnormal zone in the Chinese continent.
  中国东西部地貌边界带横跨青藏高原东部与扬子地块，成为我国大陆Ⅰ级构造地貌陡变带和地球物理变异带。
• The country straddles the equator, in the South East is the Indian ocean, and to the west is Lake victoria-the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
  赤道横贯国土中部，东南临印度洋，西部是维多利亚湖-世界第二大淡水湖。