| 正面 | 11983.sprawl 英 [sprɔːl]美 [sprɔl]     |
|---|---|
| 背面 |     释义： spread 伸展 + crawl 爬行→伸展手脚地爬，卧着2. perhaps the word influenced or related with spread and crawl.3. -awl, -rawl 表示那种爬行、拖动、拖行、蔓延、延伸这类含义：crawl, drawl, sprawl, trawl, scrawl.vi. 蔓延；伸开手足躺；无计划地扩展vt. 懒散地伸开；使蔓生n. 蔓生；伸开手足躺卧姿势 例句： 1. Recline & Sprawl is an amusingly named furniture shop in London.Recline&Sprawl是伦敦一家店名有趣的家具店。 sprawl 展开，蔓延，杂乱的扩张可能最终来自 PIE*sper,播洒，散播，展开，词源同 spark,spread.引申词义蔓延，杂乱的扩张。 拼写受 crawl 影响。 sprawl (v.)Old English spreawlian "move convulsively," with cognates in the Scandinavian languages (such as Norwegian sprala, Danish sprælle) and North Frisian spraweli, probably ultimately from PIE root *sper- (4) "to strew" (see sprout (v.)). Meaning "to spread out" is from c. 1300. That of "to spread or stretch in a careless manner" is attested from 1540s; of things, from 1745. Related: Sprawled; sprawling.sprawl (n.)1719, from sprawl (v.); meaning "straggling expansion of built-up districts into surrounding countryside" is from 1955." |