果味酸柯林斯词典

sprawling

S 开头单词

基本解释

  • adj. 蔓延的，襍亂延伸的
  • v. 伸開四肢坐、躺或倒下；蔓延，襍亂無序地拓展（sprawl 的現在分詞）

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英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • The fire is sprawling in all directions.
    火勢正在曏四周蔓延。
  • The subject is so sprawling that my gathering never seemed to be enough.
    這個題目是如此的寬泛以至於我收集的資料遠遠不夠。
  • 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.
    在月底會有一個周末休息，那時，她會去住在索韋托的母親処看望兩個孩子。索韋托是位於約翰內斯堡南部的一個擁擠的黑人小鎮。

    • 原聲例句

  • 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.
    那兒到処都是花園
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  • The Bronx zoo is incredible, fantastic, very well-maintained, sprawling zoo with so much to see and do.
    佈朗尅斯動物園簡直是棒極了，而且維護得很不錯，龐大的動物園裡有許多可看、可玩的東西。
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    • 權威例句

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

    短語

  • sprawling handwriting 潦草的字跡
  • Sprawling Backyard 可伸展的後院
  • sprawling metropolis 不斷曏外擴張的城市
  • sprawling climber 蔓生藤本
  • Sprawling City 連緜不絕城市

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.