英:[ˈstrægli]
美:[ˈstræɡlɪ]
英:[ˈstrægli]
美:[ˈstræɡlɪ]
adj.
脱离行列的
落后的
蔓延的
散乱的
strag·gly
strae gli
比较级:stragglier或more straggly
最高级:straggliest或most straggly
词根:straggle
adj.straggling 落后的;离散的;脱离队伍的
adv.stragglingly 落后地;脱离队伍地
n.straggle 散乱
straggler 流浪者;落伍的士兵;离群的动物;[植] 蔓生的枝叶
straggling 歧离;离散
v.straggling 掉队;落伍(straggle的ing形式)
vi.straggle 迷路;落伍,掉队;四散,蔓延
Adjective
1. spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions;
"sprawling handwriting"
"straggling branches"
"straggly hair"
2. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly;
"straggly ivy"
The first known use of straggly was in 1818
1 Not for him the exotic cultivars or the baroque pyrotechnics of the Dutch golden age: Freud preferred weeds and straggly potted plants – ones he encountered and lived with.
2 Some theatergoers may dislike the straggly format, or object to what is admittedly a mode of self-indulgence: “Keep.” consistently revels in Kitson’s performance of eccentricity.
3 The squat, bandy-legged man with long, straggly, ginger hair jumped and dropped an ancient suitcase, which burst open, releasing what looked like the entire contents of a junk shop window.
4 Zola scrambles over the fence and up the hill and peers in through the straggly wire fencing.
5 The apple’s stem, peel, flesh, seeds and calyx – the straggly bit at the bottom where the flower used to be – were all analysed separately.
6 I wish she'd have that straggly grey hair cut.
我希望她把那散乱的灰发剪掉!
7 There are no straggly flower stalks to cut off until late in the season.
8 At Caleb's rundown house, tucked into a grove of straggly trees alongside the railroad tracks, beer bottles glittered on the uneven yard.
9 They galloped through stands of straggly pines until their cheeks burned.
10 The definition is crisp enough to show things like textures in a towel and the straggly hairs of my beard but missed the scar above my right eye.
11 For variety she found straggly mhuvuyu, blackjack weeds, and cooked their leaves as a kind of spinach.
12 Almost as soon as we left the summit, the wind dropped, and within 500 feet the world was quite calm, eerily so, and the dense fog was nothing more than straggly, drifting shreds.
13 At least Zephyr’s sun-blaze of long straggly surfer hair is nowhere in sight.
14 And the last, which was found on both pterosaurs’ wing membranes, looked straggly like down feathers on a chicken.
15 The straggly wild plants are sprouting through the newest first world war memorial in Belgium, one that offers a different way of remembering the conflict.
16 The question posed by a straggly bearded bro on the Hard Summer shuttle bus was one of many heading into the South El Monte festival’s first day over the weekend.
17 The oak was too bulbous, the elm too straggly, and in their strangeness they seemed in league.
18 As he watched Baby walk off down the street he kept pulling the straggly bangs of his hair.
19 Viewers see Raniere at volleyball practice in a tie-dye shirt and short shorts, his straggly ponytail subdued by a sweatband.
20 The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.
公园的长椅上空无一人,我走了过去坐在一棵老柳树长长的零乱的枝条下读书。
2 散乱
scattered unruly scrappy disheveled straggling scraggly clutter dispersion dispersal litter in a litter all over the shop
3 蔓延
rampant straggling rampantly stragglingly spread sprawl overgrowth contagion rampancy pread run range trail creep stalk straggle overrun pervade overspread range over rank take hold
4 蓬乱的
5 杂乱地蔓延
6 蓬乱
8 疏疏落落的
10 不规则地延伸的
11 蔓延的