sprawls

英 [sprɔːlz]

美 [sprɔːlz]

v.  伸开四肢坐(或躺); 蔓延; 杂乱无序地拓展
n.  (城市)杂乱无序拓展的地区; 随意扩展; 蔓延; 蔓延物
sprawl的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• See also:She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up...They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing...He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground.sprawled
• VERB 扩展;延伸
  If you say that a placesprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land.
  1. The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne...
     州立休闲区在比斯坎岛南端，占地 900 多英亩。
  2. If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future...
     如果继续扩展地盘的话，我们将来就会遇到大麻烦。
  3. The sprawling city contained some 4m people.
     这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约 400 万人口。
• N-UNCOUNT (城市的)杂乱无章地扩展的地区
  You can usesprawlto refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.
  1. The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
     安卡拉整个肆意扩展的城区容纳了 260 多万人口。
• VERB 肆意扩展;杂乱无章地延伸
  If somethingsprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction.
  1. Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect...
     博伊兰随心所欲地驾驭着语言，先是任文章自由铺展，然后猛地收住，产生了绝好的效果。
  2. He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess.
     他老是忘词，歌被唱得乱七八糟。

双语例句

• The city sprawls out to the west, north and south.
  该市向西、北、南方不规则地扩张[延伸]。
• We should not think of cities as just urban sprawls, but instead should make them work for people.
  城镇化不应被定义为城市蔓延，而是要让城市服务人民。
• The city sprawls for miles in each direction.
  这座城市朝着四面延伸好几英里。
• The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne
  州立休闲区在比斯坎岛南端，占地900多英亩。
• This boy represents but a tiny aspect of a problem whose reality sprawls over the whole nation.
  这孩子只代表问题的一小部分，而整个现实问题却蔓延在整个国家。
• I am also sad to see the rampant corruption that sprawls in the booming economy.
  看着因经济起飞而滋生蔓延一大群贪污者-痛！
• The menu sprawls across a half-dozen categories, including raw, roast meat and vegetables.
  菜单分为六大类，包括生食、烤肉和蔬菜等。