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

• All four candidates straddled on competition issues.
  在竞争法问题上，四位候选人都持骑墙态度。
• As he straddled his bi cycle again he felt ill at ease, almost a sense of premonition.
  再跨上车时他觉得心神不安，仿佛有种不详的预感。
• 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。
• The timing of his life and work straddled not just the transition from Elizabeth I to James I but the turn of a new century.
  他的一生和他的作品的跨度不仅只有从伊丽莎白一世到詹姆士一世的过渡，还有向新世纪的转变。
• The shots straddled the target. kicking ( as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
  炮弹落在目标之侧。（例如对一个守门员）当球着地时踢使球弹起。
• If you straddled the equator you would see neither clockwise or counterclockwise movement.
  如果你跨越赤道，你会看到不会看到顺时针或逆时针的运动。
• The second temporary pier was such that its legs straddled the width of the pier.
  第二临时墩的立柱间距超过桥墩的宽度。
• She straddled a little as she sat by the fire.
  她坐在壁炉边稍微叉着双腿。
• 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。
• 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。