sprawling

英 [ˈsprɔːlɪŋ]

美 [ˈsprɔːlɪŋ]

adj.  蔓延的; 杂乱无序伸展的
v.  伸开四肢坐(或躺); 蔓延; 杂乱无序地拓展
sprawl的现在分词

现在分词：sprawling　

GRE

BNC.14271 / COCA.7539

牛津词典

adj.

• 蔓延的；杂乱无序伸展的
  spreading in an untidy way
  1. a modern sprawling town
     一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇

柯林斯词典

• See also:She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up...They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing...He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground.sprawled
• VERB 扩展;延伸
  If you say that a placesprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. The sprawling city contained some 4m people.
     这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约 400 万人口。
• N-UNCOUNT (城市的)杂乱无章地扩展的地区
  You can usesprawlto refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.
  1. 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。
• VERB 肆意扩展;杂乱无章地延伸
  If somethingsprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
  Synonym:sprawl

adj

• spreading out in different directions
  1. sprawling handwriting
  2. straggling branches
  3. straggly hair
  Synonym:stragglingramblingstraggly

双语例句

• Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure.
  旧大陆的一年一生的攀爬植物，在美国南部广泛种植，并被用作食物，草料和绿肥。
• Old China and the Olympic Games will meet in this sprawling city on the Yellow Sea.
  旧中国和奥运会将在黄海之滨这座日益壮大的城市里相遇。
• The sprawling city contained some 4m people.
  这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约400万人口。
• The initial wave of suburbanization was sprawling and featureless.
  最初的郊区化和无特色的浪潮是广阔的。
• The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
  她眼前的城镇，就像一个婴孩一夜之间长大成为忙碌不停、匍匐行进的巨人。
• This sprawling web has completely reshaped Beijing since the city was awarded the Olympic Games seven years ago.
  自从北京七年前成为奥林匹克举办城市以后，这个发达的交通网络就彻底的改变了北京。
• He saw a black sprawling prison full of tiny black cells in which people live.
  他看见一座不成格局的黑色监狱，许许多多黑色小牢房里都住着人。
• Officially, the elevators and escalators in New York's sprawling subway system are incredibly reliable.
  据传，纽约市地铁系统散布得杂乱无章，里面的升降电梯和自动扶梯的安全系数都很低。
• The sprawling lights of Los Angeles and the surrounding area seen from Inspiration Point, Mount Lowe, ca.
  洛杉矶的广阔的灯光及周边地区从灵感点，洛山，长约看到。
• Middle-class housing developments are sprawling north of the city with little evident planning.
  中产阶层住宅开发项目不断向城市北部蔓延，几乎毫无计划可言。