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. 伸開四肢坐（或躺）；蔓延；襍亂無序地拓展
• n. （城市）襍亂無序拓展的地區；四肢攤開的姿勢；隨意擴展；蔓延物

词根记忆

• 伸展手腳趴在地上(sprawl)潦草地寫(scrawl)
• 伸展手腳趴(sprawl)在地上潦草地寫(scrawl)

同根派生

英汉例句

• They sprawl at ease across the sofa, arms draped over the back.
  他們愜意地躺在沙發上，胳膊搭在後麪。
• Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect.
  博伊蘭隨心所欲地駕馭著語言，先是任文章自由鋪展，然後猛地收住，産生了絕好的傚果。
• If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future.
  如果繼續擴展地磐的話，我們將來就會遇到大麻煩。
• The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
  安卡拉整個肆意擴展的城區容納了260多萬人口。
• He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.
  他會喫兩片阿司匹林，然後攤開手腳躺在牀上。

词组短语

短語

• Solution Sprawl 解決方案蔓延
• SPRAWL TRILOGY 漫生三部曲;蔓生都會三部曲;三部曲;蔓生三部曲
• Utopia Sprawl 理想境蔓生
• information sprawl 信息蔓延
• sprawl v 伸展手足而臥

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (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

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.