Straddle means to sit or stand with legs on either side of something, or to extend across or exist on both sides of geographical areas or cultural domains.
[VERB 动词]骑;跨坐;叉开双腿坐 If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it.
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He sat down, straddling the chair.
他跨坐在椅子上。
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[VERB 动词]横跨,跨越(河流、道路、边境等) If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it.
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A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
一座小木桥横跨在排水渠上。
...this town that straddles the US-Mexico border.
这座跨越美国和墨西哥边境的小镇
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[VERB 动词]横跨,跨越,同属(不同时期、群体或活动领域等) Someone or something that straddles different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all.
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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。
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。
Oxford
strad·dle/ˈstrædl; NAmEˈstrædl/verb1straddlesth/sb to sit or stand with one of your legs on either side of sb/sth 骑;跨坐;分腿站立◆He swung his leg over the motorcycle, straddling it easily.他一骗腿轻而易举地骑上摩托车。2straddlesth to cross, or exist on both sides of, a river, a road or an area of land 跨过,横跨(河流、道路或一片土地)◆The mountains straddle the French-Swiss border.这座山脉横跨法国和瑞士边界。3straddlesth to exist within, or include, different periods of time, activities or groups of people 横跨,同属(不同时期、活动或群体);两栖于(不同活动)◆a writer who straddles two cultures横贯两种文化的作家straddlestraddlesstraddledstraddlingstrad·dle/ˈstrædl; NAmEˈstrædl/
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straddlestrad‧dle /ˈstrædl/ verb [transitive]
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1to sit or stand with your legs on either side of someone or something: The photo shows him dressed in leather, straddling a motorbike.2if something straddles a line, road, or river, part of it is on one side and part on the other sidestraddle something between something Mount Elgon straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.3to include different areas of activity, groups, time etc: Her research straddles mathematics and social sciences. immigrants straddling two cultures
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straddle
[ˈstrædl]straddled, straddling, straddles
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straddling[269]
跨坐(50%),把两腿叉开(20%),观望(20%),指定价格的交易(10%)
n.跨坐
vt.叉开(腿);骑,跨;跨立于;跨越
vi.跨坐;两腿叉开坐
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