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 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。
• 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。
• George made pots of money by straddling.
  乔治一手买进一手卖出地赚了一大笔钱。
• 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。
• Straddling the southern edge of the Northern Hemisphere's permafrost, the lake provides drinking water for the country, and livestock graze its steppes.
  苏古尔湖地处北半球永久冻土带南端，它为蒙古国提供了饮水，牲畜在湖边大草原上游牧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。