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

• The face of the column forms a very accurate slide. The all-welded, A-frame pylon straddles the deck.
  立柱的正面是非常精密的导轨。全焊接的A形框架式的塔柱与桥面叉开。
• The country straddles the equator, in the South East is the Indian ocean, and to the west is Lake victoria-the second largest fresh water lake in the world.
  赤道横贯国土中部，东南临印度洋，西部是维多利亚湖-世界第二大淡水湖。
• Held straddles Modernism and Post-Modernism.
  赫尔德兼备现代主义和后现代主义。
• China, one might argue, straddles the gap between developing and developed countries.
  可以说，中国横跨在发展中国家和发达国家之间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If the court is making a difference anywhere, it should be in the broad zone of conflict that straddles Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and the Central African Republic, where most of its work has been done.
  如果这一法庭会在任何地方有所作为的话，那就应该是包括刚果、卢旺达和中非共和国的广袤地区，那里冲突频仍，是它所做大部分工作的所在场所。
• It's described as a new kind of dance music which straddles both jazz and soul styles.
  这被形容成为一种溶合了爵士乐和灵歌风格的新舞蹈音乐。
• As someone who straddles the old and new worlds of fashion, I am incandescent to see the blogging community  .  .  .   besmirched by people who, whether they understand the consequences of their actions or not, behave in an unethical manner.
  作为跨越新旧时尚领域的人，看到博客圈被一些行为不道德的人不论他们是否明白自己行为的后果所玷污，我感到很愤怒。