sprawling

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）

同根派生

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
  耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節選
• 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。
  佈朗尅斯的景點 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

權威例句

• Wales, 39, is the father of the world's most sprawling encyclopedia, the online Wikipedia.
  FORBES: The Answer Man

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.