straddling

英 [ˈstrædlɪŋ]

美 [ˈstrædlɪŋ]

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的现在分词

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 boy sat straddling the fence.
  那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。
• The most prominent is the region around Shanghai, straddling Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which contains a string of prosperous industrial towns such as Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing and Ningbo that have spawned hundreds of successful private entrepreneurs.
  最突出的是横跨江浙两省的上海周边地区，这里有许多繁荣的工业城市，例如杭州、苏州、南京和宁波，它们孕育了数以百计的成功私营企业家。
• The study found that immigrant girls are more adept at straddling cultures than boys.
  研究发现，移民女孩子比男孩子更善于包容不同的文化。
• Right now, you're straddling the state line.
  现在，你跨越了两国的边界。
• And there I am straddling a jet ski.
  就能看到我跨在滑雪板上。
• George made pots of money by straddling.
  乔治一手买进一手卖出地赚了一大笔钱。
• Up ahead appeared something like a sluice gate, straddling the tracks.
  前方出现了一个大水闸似的建筑，拦腰横跨在铁道上。
• By random chance, a particle-antiparticle pair can flit into existence straddling the event horizon.
  跨越事件视界时，一对粒子-反粒子对能够以某种随机性产生。
• The president is straddling the fence on this issue, hoping the public will forget it.
  总统对这个问题采取中立态度，希望公众会忘掉它。
• So, on principle, if I were to keep it simple ( and I'm kind of making it complicated by straddling the fence), the most important thing I could advise you to do is to get yourself in shape.
  因此，依据原理，如果我想使它变简单（我会用观望的方法来使它变得复杂），我建议你做的最重要的事情就是使你保持良好的状态。