欧米惠必应词典

sprawling

S 开头单词

基本解释

  • adj. 蔓延的，杂乱延伸的
  • v. 伸开四肢坐、躺或倒下；蔓延，杂乱无序地拓展（sprawl 的现在分词）

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • The fire is sprawling in all directions.
    火势正在向四周蔓延。
  • The subject is so sprawling that my gathering never seemed to be enough.
    这个题目是如此的宽泛以至于我收集的资料远远不够。
  • On her one weekend off a month she would try to visit her two children who were being brought up by her mother in Soweto, a sprawling black township south of Johannesburg.
    在月底会有一个周末休息，那时，她会去住在索韦托的母亲处看望两个孩子。索韦托是位于约翰内斯堡南部的一个拥挤的黑人小镇。

    • 原声例句

  • On May,22 they even launched a ground attack on Kandahar air field, NATO's sprawling military base outside the city.
  • It's a big sort of sprawling--gardens everywhere.
    那儿到处都是花园
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  • The Bronx zoo is incredible, fantastic, very well-maintained, sprawling zoo with so much to see and do.
    布朗克斯动物园简直是棒极了，而且维护得很不错，庞大的动物园里有许多可看、可玩的东西。
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    • 权威例句

  • Wales, 39, is the father of the world's most sprawling encyclopedia, the online Wikipedia.
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词组短语

    短语

  • sprawling handwriting 潦草的字迹
  • Sprawling Backyard 可伸展的后院
  • sprawling metropolis 不断向外扩张的城市
  • sprawling climber 蔓生藤本
  • Sprawling City 连绵不绝城市

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • If you sprawl somewhere, you sit or lie down with your legs and arms spread out in a careless way.
  • Sprawl out means the same as .
  • If you say that a place sprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land.
  • You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outward in an uncontrolled way.