| 词汇 | straggling |
| 释义 | straggling present participle ofstraggle 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 inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily lurch reel squeeze toddle toil totter tottering totteringly tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spreading and scattering Slow and moving slowly Examples of stragglingstraggling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This host of course is not normal and shows straggling. It began as a straggling hamlet of two-roomed weatherboard cottages. To calculate the specific deposition energy, initial energy spread, energy loss straggling, and angular straggling were also taken into account. This analytical code gives the projected range and the range straggling of implanted ions as functions of the initial energy of ions for any ion-target combination. It is scattered along a trunk road for some 2,240 yards, and there has been no development, apart from straggling frontage development, including a colliery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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 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 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 But we must put an end to this straggling, piecemeal destruction of our beautiful villages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We know that many parishes are very straggling and a parish might be almost urban in one corner. 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 I hope that that is an indication of the sort of little community we are discussing, a straggling village along 1·2 miles of road. 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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