straddling

英 [ˈstrædlɪŋ]

美 [ˈstrædlɪŋ]

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的现在分词

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

• "I want to see the school," he said to Manyenga on the third day, seeing him straddling his motorcycle.
  “我想去看看学校。”第三天他看到曼因噶跨上摩托车时对他说。
• The most prominent is the region around Shanghai, straddling Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which contains a string of prosperous industrial towns such as Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing and Ningbo that have spawned hundreds of successful private entrepreneurs.
  最突出的是横跨江浙两省的上海周边地区，这里有许多繁荣的工业城市，例如杭州、苏州、南京和宁波，它们孕育了数以百计的成功私营企业家。
• A town straddling the border between Austria and hungary.
  跨越奥地利和匈牙利两国边境的城镇。
• Up ahead appeared something like a sluice gate, straddling the tracks.
  前方出现了一个大水闸似的建筑，拦腰横跨在铁道上。
• When I entered his shop last month, I saw my barber straddling two jobs.
  上个月，我进到店里，看见理发师正同时忙着两个活儿。
• The president is straddling the fence on this issue, hoping the public will forget it.
  总统对这个问题采取中立态度，希望公众会忘掉它。
• Draft Convention on the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks on the high seas;
  养护和管理公海跨界鱼类种群和高度洄游鱼类种群公约草案；
• The wall shelters the garden from the north wind. The boy sat straddling the fence.
  围墙给园子挡住了北风。那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。
• The boy sat straddling the fence.
  那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。
• This includes the specific technological and financial constraints of today's market, as well as a discussion of the inherent challenges of straddling the fence between production and design.
  这包括当今市场上的特定的技术和财政约束，同时还讨论了在制作和设计这两个角色之间如何平衡的与生俱来的挑战问题。