straddle

1 They leaned their heads together and tried to make themselves a two-headed reindeer with the headband straddling them both.

2 The only way up is to straddle their legs across two adjoining boxcars, using the horizontal ridges on the ends of the cars to inch higher.

3 When my hands straddle the corner, I swing my right boot up over the side.

4 Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire...

我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。

5 Then he straddled his driver’s seat backward and, in his reedy but modulated tenor voice, gave us the new installment of “The Laughing Man.”

6 Requiring that its human competitors straddle erratic animals moving in dense groups at extremely high speed, race riding in the 1930s, as today, was fraught with extreme danger.

7 On the sidewalk across the way the tobacconist brought out a chair, set it in front of his door, and straddled it, resting his arms on the back.

8 They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

9 He straddled before me,with a cigar in his hand.

他叉着腿站在我的面前，手里捏着一支雪茄。

10 Average system gradually bonding, for the time being Straddle possible to balance the main pattern.

均线系统的逐渐黏合, 多空暂时可能以平衡格局为主.

11 The barrel had to be carried on a specially made car consisting of a steel cradle straddling two extra-long flatcars.

12 And then I climbed on top of him, straddled his lap.

13 The girl lifts herself and straddles one of my legs.

14 Overall, the rate of conversion Straddle air to get the upper hand again.

总体看, 多空转换的速度加快,空方再度得势.

15 He lay on his belly, and Ifemelu straddled him, massaging his back and neck and thighs with her fingers, her knuckles, her elbows.

16 He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.

他具有两种文化背景，先是在英国长大，后又皈依了伊斯兰教。

17 I straddled the bench by my locker and looked at the paper.

18 Don't straddle on every issue.

别在所有问题上都持骑墙态度呀.

19 A cluster of low buildings straddles the highway.

20 The smell of the drawn blood excited the cub further; he straddled the dog’s body and started to play with the long white tail, nibbling at the end like a child with a new toy.

1 骑墙观望

serve the time

2 偏离

tangential off-break switch departure deviation diversion ab- off derogate deflect diverge go awry

3 加倍

double reduplicate gemination duplication doubling reduplication calque geminate duplicate redouble

4 观望

pussyfoot fence-sitting trim sit on the fence stand on the fence drift keep head down wait-and-see

5 跨

ping astride step ride span stride bestride overstride astraddle a cheval

6 投机

sporting speculative throw adventure opportunism venture speculate gamble

7 融合

fusion synthesis marry merge commune

8 包含

in inclusion including include contain involve incorporate encompass embody connote

9 跨过

hurdle take

10 骑

ride sit boot hack jockey bestride get a leg over pedal take back mount stride overstride

11 跨立

stride bestride

12 夹叉射击

bracket

13 跨越

stride take bestride span leapfrog trans- bridge hurdle

14 横跨

cross span crosswise

15 跨行

run-on

16 采观望态度

see which way the cat jumps

17 跨骑

astride astraddle

18 跨坐

ride mount stride bestride horse

19 骑墙

sit on the hedge sit on the rail pussyfoot trimming trim temporize

20 叉开

spraddle brace akimbo divaricate forked