straddled

英 [ˈstrædld]

美 [ˈstrædld]

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的过去分词和过去式

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

• 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。
• A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
  一座小木桥横跨在排水渠上。
• Clarke himself straddled the two spheres with dexterity and authority.
  克拉克本人凭借机敏和权威跨越了两个领域。
• In an unexpected twist, the experiment straddled the collapse of Lehman Brothers and of the stock market.
  出人意料的一点是，上述实验在时间上跨越了雷曼兄弟倒闭和股市崩盘。
• Then he remembered the woman who had straddled his face and wanted him to make love to her with it and with the crown of his head.
  他回忆起那个女人冲着自己的脸叉开双腿，要他用脸和头顶跟她干。
• He was less sure he had straddled the divide between thinking and doing, though others thought he had.
  在外人眼中，达氏不仅仅是坐而论道，可他自己却不大肯定是否已然做到知行合一。
• He describes Russians of his own age, who straddled the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, as probably the happiest generation because they are able to appreciate how far the country has travelled since the era of empty shop shelves.
  他认为，他这一代跨越苏联和后苏联时期的俄罗斯人很可能是最幸福的一代，因为他们得以感受到这个国家从商品贫乏年代以来取得了多么大的发展。
• You shouldn't have straddled when talking with the guests.
  你和客人们谈话的时候，本来不应该叉开腿坐着的。
• The shots straddled the target.
  炮弹落在目标之侧。
• The world has straddled these contradictions before.
  以前，世界也面临过这些矛盾。