sprawl

sprawl音标

英 [sprɔ:l]

美 [sprɔl]

sprawl基本释义

vi.躺卧；扩张；蔓延

vt.使蔓延

n.躺卧；蔓延

sprawl用法及例句

n.(名词)

蔓延，蔓生

散乱，散漫

杂乱的扩展，随意扩展

手脚伸开躺卧，躺卧

毅力

杂乱无序拓展的地区

蔓延物

伸开手足，伸展

v.(动词)

（使）蔓延，（使）蔓生

懒散伸开（手足），使散漫地伸开

（笨拙地）爬行

伸开四肢坐（躺），手脚伸开（成大字形）躺着

无计划地扩展，无计划地延伸，杂乱无序地拓展

潦草地书写

（使）不规则地延伸，向四面八方散开

不整齐，散漫

歪斜

躺卧

扩张

noun

1. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

Synonym: sprawling

2. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities

Synonym: conurbationurban sprawl

verb

1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

2. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way

e.g. Branches straggling out quite far

Synonym: straggle

1. (懒洋洋地)伸开四肢坐着(或躺着)If you sprawl somewhere, you sit or lie down with your legs and arms spread out in a careless way.

e.g. She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up...他离开她后她就摊手摊脚地躺在床上，甚至都懒得往身上盖点儿东西。e.g. They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing...他们手脚张开地躺在草地躺椅上，打着呼噜。

2. 扩展;延伸If you say that a place sprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land.

e.g. The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne...州立休闲区在比斯坎岛南端，占地 900 多英亩。e.g. 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**烦。

3. (城市的)杂乱无章地扩展的地区You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.

e.g. 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。

4. 肆意扩展;杂乱无章地延伸If something sprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction.

e.g. 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。e.g. He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess.他老是忘词，歌被唱得乱七八糟。

1. sprawl

1. 蔓延：这种移民潮是90年代美国郊区蔓延(sprawl)现象形成的主因. 反过来,也由于高科技的发展促进了城市中心相关产业的成长进而带动移民潮的回流. 本文主要目的即是在探讨美国新经济产生的背景与原因,及其对城市发展尤其是郊区蔓延的影响.

2. 展：研究员考克斯(Wendell Cox)认为,推高屋价的罪魁祸首是一些强化都市的*策,它限制了都市周边地方的住宅社区发展:「城市规划人士认为我们应停止不断扩大城市,他们甚至使用贬义字---肆意扩展(sprawl).

3. 建筑物无计划延伸,蔓延,四面八方散开：7. periphery 周围,边缘 | 8. sprawl 建筑物无计划延伸,蔓延,四面八方散开 | 9. lot 小片土地

4. 躺卧姿势：sprat 鲱鱼 | sprawl 躺卧姿势 | spray drain 排水暗沟

She..fell into a sort of luxurious sprawl.

出自：P. H. Johnson

A child..sprawling at ease On smooth turf.

出自：R. Graves

His foot caught in the grass, and he sprawled headlong.

出自：S. Brett

Andrew had fallen asleep, sprawled on the sofa.

出自：H. Mantel

近义词

临近词

couch长椅

trail踪迹

lounge休息室

mass大量

urban sprawl城区的无计划扩张...

loll懒洋洋地呆着、坐或站着(...

spread out伸开

topple使倒塌

expand使 ... 膨胀

stretch伸展

collapse（使）倒塌

extend over延续(遍布)

ramble漫步

spread传播

conurbation集合城市(具有许多卫星城...

tumble暴跌

fan out成扇形展开

extension延长

straggle分散

slump大幅度下跌

stretch out伸出

extend延伸

cover封面

out出

sprawling不规则伸展的...

fan风扇

sprawl and control

sprawling on the sofa

sprawling

sprawl with under-arm lock

sprawling handwriting

sprawling characters

sprawly

sprawl of development park

spray

sprawl one's last

sprawlly

sprat

相关列句

We discovered two great hikes only minutes from the downtown sprawl.(我们发现两大远足行径距市中心仅需几分钟。)

He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.(他会吃两片阿斯匹林，然后摊开四肢躺在床上。)

Here in the heart of the sprawl, I'd found, well, heart.(在这杂乱无章的中心，我恰恰找到了，心。)

Recession has slowed the rush to sun and sprawl.(经济的衰退已经减缓人们往阳光地带迁移。)

Explanation: Curtains of shimmering green light sprawl across this gorgeous night skyscape.(解释：绿光闪耀，如窗帘般横挂在华丽的夜空中。)

The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.(那些打理得非常整洁的花园是杂乱扩张的开罗市区中的一片绿洲。)

After supper, we'd sprawl on Mom's bed and stare for hours at the tube.(晚饭后，我们趴在妈妈的床上，看了好几个小时电视。)

People sprawl in deck chairs or sit under umbrellas.(人们四肢舒展地躺在沙滩椅上，或坐在遮阳伞下。)

Urban sprawl is paving over fertile land in the East.(城市的无节制扩张侵占了东部的良田。)

However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion problems which now make commuting times far higher.(然而，公共基础设施并没有跟上城市扩张的步伐，这造成了大规模的交通拥堵，也大大拉长了通勤时间。)