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straddle v.跨坐；把两腿叉开；观望n.跨坐；观望；指定价格的交易 (1) 那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。(2) 这座山脉横跨法国和瑞士边界。(3) 他叉着腿站在我的面前，手里捏着一支雪茄。(4) 在有争议的问题上他从不表态。 Unless you're using an old-fashioned side saddle, you straddle a horse when you ride it. Gymnasts learn how to straddle the parallel bars, basically doing the splits on them. But if someone says you're "straddling the fence", it means you're doing a different kind of splits: you're not taking a side and refusing to commit. In finance, straddling means you want to leave your options open to buy or sell.

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英 ['strædl] 美 ['strædl] (1) The boy sat straddling the fence.(2) The mountains straddle the French-Swiss border.(3) He straddled before me,with a cigar in his hand.(4) He never states his views;he always straddles every issue. When you straddle something, you're sitting on it with one leg on each side — like straddling a horse or a fence. 1[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.   [V n]He sat down, straddling the chair.他跨坐在椅子上。2[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.   [V n]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3[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.   [V n]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。

英语单词	straddle
英美音标	英 ['strædl] 美 ['strædl]
中文释义	v.跨坐；把两腿叉开；观望 n.跨坐；观望；指定价格的交易
英语例句	(1) The boy sat straddling the fence. (2) The mountains straddle the French-Swiss border. (3) He straddled before me,with a cigar in his hand. (4) He never states his views;he always straddles every issue.
中文例句	(1) 那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。 (2) 这座山脉横跨法国和瑞士边界。 (3) 他叉着腿站在我的面前，手里捏着一支雪茄。 (4) 在有争议的问题上他从不表态。
vocabulary简明	When you straddle something, you're sitting on it with one leg on each side — like straddling a horse or a fence.
vocabulary扩展	Unless you're using an old-fashioned side saddle, you straddle a horse when you ride it. Gymnasts learn how to straddle the parallel bars, basically doing the splits on them. But if someone says you're "straddling the fence", it means you're doing a different kind of splits: you're not taking a side and refusing to commit. In finance, straddling means you want to leave your options open to buy or sell.
柯林斯解释	1 [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. [V n] He sat down, straddling the chair. 他跨坐在椅子上。 2 [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. [V n] 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 3 [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. [V n] 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。

Straddle Straddling Side Verb 动词 [V N Sat