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

• The shots straddled the target. kicking ( as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
  炮弹落在目标之侧。（例如对一个守门员）当球着地时踢使球弹起。
• He turned a chair around and straddled it, resting his chin on the back.
  他把椅子转过来，叉开腿一屁股坐在上面，下巴搁在椅背上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He has successfully straddled the worlds of film, music, and television.
  他已成功涉足电影界、音乐界和电视界。
• A fixture similar in design to a toilet that is straddled for bathing the genitals and the posterior parts. This treatment may be used in full bath, sitz bath, foot bath or for hand and arm submersion.
  清洗盆一种在设计上像便池的固定装置，可叉开腿跨坐于上洗浴生殖器和臀部这种浴疗法可用于全身浴、坐浴、足浴或手臂浸泡。
• As he straddled his bi cycle again he felt ill at ease, almost a sense of premonition.
  再跨上车时他觉得心神不安，仿佛有种不详的预感。
• The shots straddled the target.
  炮弹落在目标之侧。