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)
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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 live near where the viaduct straddles the river wye.
  我住在横跨怀河的高架桥附近。
• 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。
• His town straddles the20km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima plant, as well as the30km circle in which as many as136,000 people are being urged to stay indoors to avoid radiation.
  他所在的小镇坐落在福岛核电站周围20公里的隔离区内。以福岛核电站为中心，半径30公里区域内的13万6千名居民都受到警告要待在家中，避免辐射。
• 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。
• The East-West geomorphological boundary zone of China straddles between the Tibetan plateau and Yangtze block and forms the first-order morphological and geophysical abnormal zone in the Chinese continent.
  中国东西部地貌边界带横跨青藏高原东部与扬子地块，成为我国大陆Ⅰ级构造地貌陡变带和地球物理变异带。
• Held straddles Modernism and Post-Modernism.
  赫尔德兼备现代主义和后现代主义。
• Chinese companies have begun developing the Chunxiao gas field, which straddles the median line, prompting complaints from Tokyo that they are siphoning off Japanese gas.
  中国企业已经开始开发位于中间线附近的“春晓”气田，导致日本方面抱怨中国正在抽取日本的天然气资源。
• Mount Fuji is in a national park, straddles two prefectures and is surrounded by five lakes and many towns, including Kawaguchiko.
  富士山是座国家公园，横跨两个县，周边有五个湖泊和诸多城镇，河口湖是其中之一。
• 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。
• A bridge straddles the river.
  一桥跨越大江。