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sprawl
[英] [sprɔ:l] [美] [sprɔl] 生词本

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n.

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1. VERB See also: sprawled; (懒洋洋地)伸开四肢坐着(或躺着) If you sprawl somewhere, you sit or lie down with your legs and arms spread out in a careless way. 

  • She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up...

    他离开她后她就摊手摊脚地躺在床上，甚至都懒得往身上盖点儿东西。

  • They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing...

    他们手脚张开地躺在草地躺椅上，打着呼噜。

  • He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground.

    他用膝盖抵住那个人的大腿内侧，将他按趴在地上。

2. VERB 扩展;延伸 If you say that a place sprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land. 

  • The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne...

    州立休闲区在比斯坎岛南端，占地 900 多英亩。

  • If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future...

    如果继续扩展地盘的话，我们将来就会遇到大麻烦。

  • The sprawling city contained some 4m people.

    这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约 400 万人口。

3. N-UNCOUNT (城市的)杂乱无章地扩展的地区 You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way. 

  • The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.

    安卡拉整个肆意扩展的城区容纳了 260 多万人口。

4. VERB 肆意扩展;杂乱无章地延伸 If something sprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction. 

  • Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect...

    博伊兰随心所欲地驾驭着语言，先是任文章自由铺展，然后猛地收住，产生了绝好的效果。

  • He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess.

    他老是忘词，歌被唱得乱七八糟。

Noun

1. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

Verb

1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

2. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way;

  • "Branches straggling out quite far"
1. He lay there in a sprawl.
他四肢伸开躺在那里。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2. I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
我发现了一处全无杂乱工业区踪影的、令人心旷神怡的地方。

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl.
这个曾经风光秀丽的乡村在城市的无规划扩展中消失了。

来自《简明英汉词典》