sprawl

1 They’d already scouted the modern city, which, strangely, reminded Piper of Albuquerque - a bunch of low, boxy, whitewashed buildings sprawled across a plain at the foot of some purplish mountains.

2 It was a story that tended to sprawl all over the place, and yet it remained essentially portable.

3 Blue Eyes slashed again, but as she lunged forward to follow up, she tripped and sprawled on the ground.

4 He wouldn’t let them leave with him sprawled in the road.

5 The 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center tower yields an unmatched view of the city’s urban sprawl.

从94层高的上海国际金融中心上观望这个城市的视线无与伦比。

6 I found Jake sprawled on his face in front of the door to his room.

7 They sprawled under the park trees eating bread and cheese, but wherever they were, they talked and talked and talked.

8 She was in her late twenties with a sprawl of red hair and a round, boyish face.

9 He sprawled on the bed again and lay there shivering until Janie and the doctor arrived.

10 Pity twisted her heart as she saw her mother, so soon to bear a child, sprawled awkwardly on her hands and knees.

11 An attractive but boorish man sits sprawled on the sofa, his shirt untucked, a beer in his hand.

12 She sprawled in her orange light and sleepily opened and closed her eyes.

13 Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand.

14 Gaily sprawled across the floor, then scrambled to stand up, struggling to get his hands and feet under him.

15 She let go and sprawled back on the grass in convulsions of laughter.

16 The town sprawled along the side of the lake.

小镇顺着湖的边缘扩展。

17 A thin boy, wearing a Malcolm X T-shirt and sporting a DIY haircut, sat up from where he’d once been sprawled by a gaping hole in the side of the bus.

18 At the upper end of the little valley was the grapevine sprawled over its man-made arbor.

19 Outside, Clarisse and her friends were sprawled in the mud, and a bunch of other campers had gathered around to gawk.

20 Christina, sprawled across her cot with one long leg dangling over the edge, gives me a look.

1 扩展

extension expansion develop spread expand take hold

2 伸开

outstretched outspread stretch spread

3 散乱

wild scattered straggling dispersive sctd. scrappily dispersion smother scrappiness disperse back to front diffuse scraggly dishevel dispersed scattering scatter

4 伸开手足

asprawl

5 散漫

incompact rambling discursive flaccid desultory scatty excursive diffusion easy loose scattered undisciplined straggling hang-loose dishabille discursion

6 挣扎

struggling struggle flounder scrabble throe thrash flounce welter

7 匍匐

reptant depressed prostrate procumbent creep grovel on hands and knees

8 杂乱无章

undigested scatty anyhow chaos litter criss-cross higgledy-piggledy without rhyme or reason

9 潦草地书写

squiggle

10 爬行

creepy reptile reptant crawl creep repent creeping creepy-crawly pronograde

11 趴倒

stretch

12 使蔓生

sprig

13 蔓延

rank widespread rampant contagious spread overgrowth contagion rampancy reach creep lick scramble propagate overgrow straggle gad stalk distend overspread walk abroad straggling straggly rampantly stragglingly pread run range trail overrun pervade range over ground sprawling epidemic take hold prevalent wide-spread extension riot infestation thrive ramble

14 伸展

outspread stretch extension protraction run lie extend spread expand sweep

15 不整齐

erose irregular rambling untidy scraggly waney negligence irregularity

16 扩张

dilatant expansile distent expansively spread extension expansion enlargement dilatation empire-building dilatancy propagandism enlarge push extend expand span distend outstretch

17 毅力

push iron sand gut spine stamina pushiness

18 蔓生

rampant rambling creeping overgrown gangly straggling gangling run trail ramp creep ramble straggle gad rank riot range trailing straggly sprig

19 翻来覆去

toss thresh

20 歪斜

crazy slant splay slanting slantwise aslant set tilt distortion cock warp skew skewness askew wry on the skew