straddled

英 [ˈstrædld]

美 [ˈstrædld]

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的过去分词和过去式

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

• If you straddled the equator you would see neither clockwise or counterclockwise movement.
  如果你跨越赤道，你会看到不会看到顺时针或逆时针的运动。
• A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
  一座小木桥横跨在排水渠上。
• Multicolored buses and lorries filled with passengers rolled through the narrow streets of Kabul, led by the constant shouts of the driver assistants who straddled the vehicles'rear bumpers and yelped directions to the driver in their thick Kabuli accent.
  五颜六色的公共汽车和货车载满乘客，在喀布尔狭窄的街道上川流不息，司机的助手跨坐在后面的保险杠上，用口音浓重的喀布尔方言大声叫嚷，替司机指引方向。
• You shouldn't have straddled when talking with the guests.
  你和客人们谈话的时候，本来不应该叉开腿坐着的。
• The second temporary pier was such that its legs straddled the width of the pier.
  第二临时墩的立柱间距超过桥墩的宽度。
• He was less sure he had straddled the divide between thinking and doing, though others thought he had.
  在外人眼中，达氏不仅仅是坐而论道，可他自己却不大肯定是否已然做到知行合一。
• She straddled a little as she sat by the fire.
  她坐在壁炉边稍微叉着双腿。
• All four candidates straddled on competition issues.
  在竞争法问题上，四位候选人都持骑墙态度。
• Research and design of straddled-type monorail PC beam carrier
  跨座式轻轨PC梁运输车的设计研究
• He describes Russians of his own age, who straddled the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, as probably the happiest generation because they are able to appreciate how far the country has travelled since the era of empty shop shelves.
  他认为，他这一代跨越苏联和后苏联时期的俄罗斯人很可能是最幸福的一代，因为他们得以感受到这个国家从商品贫乏年代以来取得了多么大的发展。