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

• And there I am straddling a jet ski.
  就能看到我跨在滑雪板上。
• George made pots of money by straddling.
  乔治一手买进一手卖出地赚了一大笔钱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You could come in straddling him, they still wouldn't believe it.
  摩妮卡，就算你骑著他进去他们也不会相信的。
• Draft Convention on the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks on the high seas;
  养护和管理公海跨界鱼类种群和高度洄游鱼类种群公约草案；
• The wall shelters the garden from the north wind. The boy sat straddling the fence.
  围墙给园子挡住了北风。那个男孩跨坐于围墙上。
• When I entered his shop last month, I saw my barber straddling two jobs.
  上个月，我进到店里，看见理发师正同时忙着两个活儿。
• Three swing states appear to be straddling both universes.
  三个摇摆不定的州对两位候选人似乎都支持。