sprawl
音标发音
- 英式音标 [sprɔːl]
- 美式音标 [sprɑːl]
- 国际音标 [sprɔ:l]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- v. 伸开四肢坐（或躺）；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展
- n. （城市）杂乱无序拓展的地区；四肢摊开的姿势；随意扩展；蔓延物
词根记忆
- 伸展手脚趴在地上(sprawl)潦草地写(scrawl)
- 伸展手脚趴(sprawl)在地上潦草地写(scrawl)
英汉例句
- They sprawl at ease across the sofa, arms draped over the back.
他们惬意地躺在沙发上，胳膊搭在后面。 - Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect.
博伊兰随心所欲地驾驭着语言，先是任文章自由铺展，然后猛地收住，产生了绝好的效果。 - If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future.
如果继续扩展地盘的话，我们将来就会遇到大麻烦。 - The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
安卡拉整个肆意扩展的城区容纳了260多万人口。 - He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.
他会吃两片阿司匹林，然后摊开手脚躺在床上。
词组短语
- Solution Sprawl 解决方案蔓延
- SPRAWL TRILOGY 漫生三部曲;蔓生都会三部曲;三部曲;蔓生三部曲
- Utopia Sprawl 理想境蔓生
- information sprawl 信息蔓延
- sprawl v 伸展手足而卧
短语
英英字典
- (BODY) to spread the arms and legs out carelessly and untidily while sitting or lying down
- (CITY) (especially of a city) to cover a large area of land with buildings that have been added at different times so that it looks untidy
- (BODY) a position with the arms and legs spread out carelessly and untidily while sitting or lying down
- (CITY) a large area of land covered with buildings that have been added at different times so that it looks untidy
- 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.