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 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。
• To that end he supports the creation of the role of chief revenue officer, who straddles the two functions.
  为此，他赞成创造首席收入官一职，统领这两个职能部门。
• His town straddles the20km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima plant, as well as the30km circle in which as many as136,000 people are being urged to stay indoors to avoid radiation.
  他所在的小镇坐落在福岛核电站周围20公里的隔离区内。以福岛核电站为中心，半径30公里区域内的13万6千名居民都受到警告要待在家中，避免辐射。
• If the court is making a difference anywhere, it should be in the broad zone of conflict that straddles Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and the Central African Republic, where most of its work has been done.
  如果这一法庭会在任何地方有所作为的话，那就应该是包括刚果、卢旺达和中非共和国的广袤地区，那里冲突频仍，是它所做大部分工作的所在场所。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I live near where the viaduct straddles the river wye.
  我住在横跨怀河的高架桥附近。