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

• 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。
• So, on principle, if I were to keep it simple ( and I'm kind of making it complicated by straddling the fence), the most important thing I could advise you to do is to get yourself in shape.
  因此，依据原理，如果我想使它变简单（我会用观望的方法来使它变得复杂），我建议你做的最重要的事情就是使你保持良好的状态。
• He stepped over the fallen figure, straddling her back.
  他抬脚跨上摔倒在地的人，骑在她的背上。
• And there I am straddling a jet ski.
  就能看到我跨在滑雪板上。
• Garbage First aims to replace CMS and takes a somewhat different approach, straddling the young generation-tenured generation boundary.
  GarbageFirst的目标在于替换掉CMS并且采取了某些不同的方式&跨越了新生区和老年区的边界。
• Abyei, which sits on rich oil fields straddling the north-south border, is claimed by both sides.
  阿卜耶伊座落在跨越苏丹南北边境线的石油蕴藏丰富的油田上，双方都声称这片油田属于自己。
• 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。
• The study found that immigrant girls are more adept at straddling cultures than boys.
  研究发现，移民女孩子比男孩子更善于包容不同的文化。
• Behind the rustic counter are three large pools of sea-green water, a wooden plank straddling each.
  这里恍若一座室内游泳池：在乡村式柜台的背后，赫然是三个大水池，池水泛着海绿色，上面分别架着一块木板。
• 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。