straddle
straddle 英 [ˈstrædl] 美 [ˈstrædl]
vi. 跨坐；两腿叉开坐 vt. 叉开(腿)；骑，跨；跨立于；跨越 n. 跨坐
进行时:straddling 过去式:straddled 过去分词:straddled 第三人称单数:straddles 名词复数:straddles
- When you straddle something, you're sitting on it with one leg on each side — like straddling a horse or a fence.
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- vi. 跨坐；两腿叉开坐
- vt. 叉开(腿)；骑，跨；跨立于；跨越
- n. 跨坐
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1. And a chair - straddle it backwards or sit in it sideways to remove each thigh-high stocking with pointed foot in the air.
还有一把椅子——两腿向后叉开在上面或者是侧坐在上面来移动每只长筒袜，同时将另一只脚指向空中。
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2. Like any country, it is complex, it has its beauties and its ugliness, but I am struggling to get my head around the extremes it seems to straddle.
像其它任何一个国家一样，这是一个复杂多面的国家，既有她美丽的一面，也有她丑陋的一面，但我极力让我的思维跨越两个极端。
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3. So the next time you straddle a doorway between a school cafeteria and a hall, know that you’re between two regulatory universes.
所以，当你下一次走过学校食堂和礼堂之间的小路时，就会知道你正在跨越两个监管区域。
- straddle (v.) 1560s, "spread the legs wide," probably an alteration of striddle (mid-15c.), frequentative of striden (see stride (v.)). Transitive sense "place one leg on one side of and the other on the other side of" is from 1670s. U.S. colloquial figurative sense of "take up an equivocal position, appear to favor both sides" is attested from 1838. Related: Straddled; straddling. The noun is first recorded 1610s.
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