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

• An enormous viaduct straddles the river wye.
  一座巨大的高架桥飞跨瓦伊河两岸。
• As someone who straddles the old and new worlds of fashion, I am incandescent to see the blogging community  .  .  .   besmirched by people who, whether they understand the consequences of their actions or not, behave in an unethical manner.
  作为跨越新旧时尚领域的人，看到博客圈被一些行为不道德的人不论他们是否明白自己行为的后果所玷污，我感到很愤怒。
• 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。
• Secretaries Gates and Clinton entered the negotiation building that straddles the demarcation line and crossed briefly to the North Korean side as they were shown around.
  盖茨部长和克林顿国务卿进入了横跨临时军事分界线的谈判会场，并在参观的时候短暂进入北韩一侧。
• Chinese companies have begun developing the Chunxiao gas field, which straddles the median line, prompting complaints from Tokyo that they are siphoning off Japanese gas.
  中国企业已经开始开发位于中间线附近的“春晓”气田，导致日本方面抱怨中国正在抽取日本的天然气资源。
• Romero said Mount Qomolangma, that straddles Nepal-China border, was part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
  罗梅罗称，他的目标是登上世界七大洲的最高峰，位于尼泊尔和中国交界处的珠穆朗玛峰是他的目标之一。
• 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。
• The upper level straddles across the lower parallelepiped and the mountain ridge, while being surrounded by a terrace on three of its four sides.
  低两端的平行和山脊上一级跨越，在被包围的露台就其四面3。
• Held straddles Modernism and Post-Modernism.
  赫尔德兼备现代主义和后现代主义。
• China, one might argue, straddles the gap between developing and developed countries.
  可以说，中国横跨在发展中国家和发达国家之间。