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

• A decade on, the sole superpower is not going to shuffle off its sprawling interests and commitments overnight.
  十年过去了，这个唯一的超级大国不会在一夜之间洗脱其纷繁芜杂的利益和承诺。
• 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。
• It will be come from another sector of Samsung's sprawling business empire.
  它将来自三星不断蔓延的商业帝国的另一个部门。
• 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。
• I knocked into her in the corridor and sent her sprawling.
  我在走廊里跟她撞了个满怀，把她撞了个四脚朝天。
• 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。
• Toy companies and running shoe makers built their sprawling factories there, and workers migrated to the new city.
  玩具企业和跑步鞋制造商将大型工厂设在那里，工人也纷纷迁移到这个新城市。
• Visitors from Berlin and from around the world are crammed into the sprawling Messe Berlin, where the gadget expo is taking place.
  从柏林游客和来自世界各地的人挤在了广阔的展览柏林，那里的小工具博览会正在发生。
• Because a diary allows writers to impose a coherent narrative on messy, sprawling, upsetting life.
  因为日记能让写日记的人对繁杂、散乱和令人苦恼的生活进行连贯性叙述。
• 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。