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

• Secretaries Gates and Clinton entered the negotiation building that straddles the demarcation line and crossed briefly to the North Korean side as they were shown around.
  盖茨部长和克林顿国务卿进入了横跨临时军事分界线的谈判会场，并在参观的时候短暂进入北韩一侧。
• The upper level straddles across the lower parallelepiped and the mountain ridge, while being surrounded by a terrace on three of its four sides.
  低两端的平行和山脊上一级跨越，在被包围的露台就其四面3。
• 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。
• China does not recognise the boundary, and is already extracting gas from a field which straddles it. As a result, buses still suffer significant delays due to traffic congestion in major inter-district traffic corridors.
  而中方不承认这条中间线，并且已经开始在跨线地区开发油气资源。结果，由于主要跨区交通走廊堵塞，巴士车程仍长时间受到阻延。
• 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。
• Chinese companies have begun developing the Chunxiao gas field, which straddles the median line, prompting complaints from Tokyo that they are siphoning off Japanese gas.
  中国企业已经开始开发位于中间线附近的“春晓”气田，导致日本方面抱怨中国正在抽取日本的天然气资源。
• In other words, PHP as a technology straddles a number of complex areas and disciplines.
  换句话说，PHP这种技术横跨多个复杂的领域。
• 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。
• A bridge straddles the river.
  一桥跨越大江。
• Romero said Mount Qomolangma, that straddles Nepal-China border, was part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
  罗梅罗称，他的目标是登上世界七大洲的最高峰，位于尼泊尔和中国交界处的珠穆朗玛峰是他的目标之一。