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。
• 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。
• The straddling bus, first exhibited on the13th Beijing International High-tech Expo in May this year, may be one possible answer to the traffic problem.
  今年五月在第十三届北京国际科技产业博览会上首次展出的立体快巴将可能成为解决交通问题的一条出路。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Conference on straddling and migratory fish stocks;
  跨界和洄游鱼类种群会议；
• Creates a special intelligence and a huge confidence in straddling apparent contradictions.
  这引发了一种特殊的智慧和驾驭剧烈冲突的巨大自信。
• The boy sat straddling the fence.
  那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。
• Western leaders must spell out how Ukraine – an ethnically diverse country straddling Russia and the eastern borders of the EU – can enjoy a special position in Europe.
  西方领导人必须清楚地表明，乌克兰这个地跨俄罗斯和欧盟东部边界之间的多民族国家在欧洲将可享有一种特殊地位。