| 词汇 | straggle |
| 释义 | straggle verb[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] uk /ˈstræɡ.əl/ us /ˈstræɡ.əl/ to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts: 四散，散落 I put my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.我把头发扎了起来，因为我不喜欢披散在背上。 A year after the hurricane, tourists are beginning to straggle (= come in small numbers) back to the region.飓风过去一年之后，又开始有游客零星地来到这个地区。 Moving unsteadily or with difficulty blunder bumble dodder dodderer doddery favour halting hobble inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily teeter toddle toil totter tottering trundle tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spreading and scattering Slow and moving slowly straggle | American Dictionarystraggle verb[ I ] us/ˈstræɡ·əl/ to move alone or in small groups slowly and usually separated in distance or time from those who went earlier: The players straggled in for the morning practice session. stragglernoun[ C ]us/ˈstræɡ·lər/ I want all you children to stay together and hold hands when crossing a street – no stragglers! Examples of stragglestraggle A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls. This host of course is not normal and shows straggling. Not long afterward, residents straggled back and street life became more active. Is it prepared to acknowledge that this project should go ahead as it is, without straggling appendages? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English And some of the new towns do look more like straggling villages than towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The straggling nature of the buildings here would make it a very heavy burden on the local authority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This nation is engaged in a deadly straggle with its competitors and no one can foresee the end. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will also lead and is already leading to a straggle of refugees from the poor countries to the rich. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There unexpectedly hove in sight a very large and straggling fleet. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is this combination of an appearance of a straggling village and monotony of building which produces this not altogether satisfactory appearance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our rearguard straggles out into conditions which are crueller than barbarism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To suggest that that is straggling and ribbon development is going a little far. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is much better that they should do that rather than straggle back in unregulated mass formation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The principal lambing period should be over in six weeks but, with any flock, it will straggle a bit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot afford to let this small island become a mass of straggling villages, one adjacent to the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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