sprawl
美 [sprɔl] 
英 [sprɔːl]
- n.蔓延；（城市）杂乱无序拓展的地区；随意扩展；蔓延物
- v.蔓延；伸开四肢坐（或躺）；杂乱无序地拓展
- 网络蔓生；爬行；城市无计划扩张
词形变化
第三人称单数：sprawls 现在分词：sprawling 过去式：sprawled 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i] (+ adv./prep.) 伸开四肢坐（或躺）to sit or lie with your arms and legs spread out in a relaxed or awkward way |
| He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。 |
| Something hit her and sent her sprawling to the ground. 不知什么东西击中了她，把她打趴在地上。 |
| I tripped and went sprawling . 我绊了一下，摔了个四脚朝天。 |
2. | [i] + adv./prep. 蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展to spread in an untidy way; to cover a large area |
| The town sprawled along the side of the lake. 小镇顺着湖的边缘扩展。 |
1. | [c][ususing][u] （城市）杂乱无序拓展的地区a large area covered with buildings that spreads from the city into the countryside in an ugly way |
| attempts to control the fast-growing urban sprawl 为控制城市过快过乱的拓展所作的努力 |
2. | [c][ususing] 随意扩展；蔓延；蔓延物an act of spreading to cover a large area in an untidy way; sth that spreads like this |
英汉解释
v. | 3. (陆地,蔓藤等)不规则地延伸,蔓延;(建筑物)无计划地延伸;向四面八方散开;不整齐,散漫 |
n. | |
英英解释
例句
These silvery threads stretching around the dark globe create a dramatic spider's web showing the patterns of our global sprawl.
这些银色的线围着夜色里黑暗的地球伸展，创造出一个引人注目的蜘蛛网，显示出我们全球扩张的模式。
Where in the sprawl could I find the oddballs able to see through the glare and take advantage of the city's unmatched energy?
在这杂乱无章之地，我在哪里才找得到一个奇人可以告诉我如何看透这耀眼俗艳，汲取这城市无与伦比的能量呢？
After days of days of hard exercise and practice, my son could sprawl slowly and stand up to shamble a bit eventually!
经过日复一日的魔鬼般的磨练，儿子终于可以摇摇晃晃地走路了。
This can result in a sprawl of virtual resources that can easily get out of control if not monitored and managed effectively.
如果不有效加以监控和管理，这会使虚拟资源的扩张一发不可收拾。
Americans are choosing to abandon the suburban sprawl in favour of a more comfortable, cheaper and greener life in the city centre.
美国人现在的潮流是：放弃郊区，转向在城市中心寻找舒适，更经济和环保的生活方式。
Urban sprawl, housing and land use: To what extent have cities in Hainan grown in terms of economy, population, and land use?
城市扩张，住房和土地使用：海南在城市经济，人口和土地用途上发展到何种程度？
Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand. Urban sprawl crowded the small farmers out of the immediate area.
警察强行把观众推回观众席。城市杂乱的扩张将农夫们挤出这个地区
Over thousands of years of civilization, the planet has been entirely enveloped by cityscapes and urban sprawl.
经过数千年的文明演变，这颗星球完全被都市和城区所覆盖。
Michael crawls through the hole and into a narrow, but extensive service corridor. Metal catwalks and pipes sprawl in all directions.
Michael爬过洞去，进入了一个狭窄的，但是空间广阔的维修通道，狭窄的通道和管道向各个方向蔓延展开。
Finally, the Keck telescope was used to confirm that these galaxies were at the same distance and part of the same galactic sprawl.
最后，用凯克望远镜来确认，这些星系距离相同，都属于同一星系扩张的一部分。
By the following afternoon more than 30 blocks had become consumed by the riot, transformed into a burning sprawl.
在那天下午，有超过30个街区被暴力活动摧毁，变成了一片燃烧的废墟。
He flew backward off the stage, smashed into the wall, and slid down it to sprawl on the floor.
他猛地朝后飞出舞台，撞在墙上，然后滑落下来，蜷缩在地板上。
Modern crocodiles crawl on their bellies because their legs sprawl out to the side.
现代鳄鱼则用肚子爬行，因为它们的腿伸展到了身体两侧。
The desire to own cars and land accompanies this idea. This property craving is currently satiated via suburban sprawl and large houses.
拥有自己的汽车和土地，这念头伴随着郊区的伸延和大房子的建造，使这种对财产的占有欲得到了充分满足。
sprawl: (AHD) Haphazard growth or extension outward, especially that resulting from real estate development on the outskirts of a city.
无计划发展：偶尔增长或向四周扩展，特别是由城市郊区房地产的发展而形成。
I prodded a pretty young marshmallow cretin girl with my crop and made her sprawl on the ground.
我用阴茎戳中了一个年轻甜美的痴呆姑娘，把她放倒在地。
As they do so, they may turn decentralised sprawl into quilts of energetic suburbs with a community feeling.
当他们移民后，可能会慢慢将分散蔓延的居民聚集成为充满活力和社区氛围的城郊生活带。
Today's technologist needs to be flexible-oftentimes, we find ourselves away from the urban sprawl that affords us our wares!
今天的技术专家应该更灵活变通一些，因为我们时常发现自己与那个提供物资的繁华城市相隔千里！
From the top, Athens' urban sprawl stretches out in every direction.
雅典城区从山顶向四面八方延伸。
If the galaxies within a cluster are the urban cores of the megacity , this gas is the suburban sprawl.
假如星系团内的星系是大都会的城市核心，这气体便是散漫无章的延伸郊区。
Outside of the sprawl, and a narrow equatorial band of starports, much of Ord Mantell remains very rural and low tech.
而在这个城市带和赤道附近的狭窄地带中的一系列太空港外，大部分地区还保持这乡村风格。
Lack of car ownership also means less urban sprawl, with most city dwellers concentrated in urban areas near the city center.
也正是由于这个原因，所以城市人口很难向郊区大幅迁移，人们还是愿意选择住在出行方便的市中心。
The rush for both sun and sprawl has now reversed, at least temporarily.
对阳光和蔓延地带的追求现在已经有改观了，至少暂时是这样的。
The issue of reconstruction aside, China's cities are also too big and there's a real problem with urban sprawl.
除了旧城更新改造问题，中国城市规模太大、城市蔓延问题也很严峻。
The women's interweaving stories sprawl across the chapters, and the loose organization may frustrate report writers.
女人的横跨章节的使交织的故事伸开手足而睡，和宽松的组织可能挫败报告作家。
The quantitative measures of urban sprawl can reflect whether the city planning is reasonable by its measure factors.
城市蔓延的定量测量，它的各项测量指标反映了这个城市规划的合理性。
CONS: Higher-than-average housing costs, sluggish employment growth, accelerating urban sprawl and unplanned development, long winters.
反对：高于平均的房价，低迷的就业增长率，快速的城市扩张及无计划的发展，漫长的寒冬。
Sand dunes sprawl along the coast of northeastern Brazil, sometimes extending kilometers inland.
沙丘沿着巴西东北部海岸蔓延，有时会往内陆扩展数公里。
Finding your way about Cairo's vast sprawl is not as difficult as it may seem.
寻找你对开罗的巨大张力的方式是并是像看起来那么困难。
He says in many parts of America, the problem is urban sprawl, as cities expand in vast suburban housing tracts.
西佛尔说，美国很多地方都出现了都市漫无计划扩展的问题，城市延伸到巨大的郊区住房地带。
Behaviors that were adaptive for our hunter-gatherer ancestors may not be adaptive for the denizens of urban sprawl.
那些对我们的狩猎收集者祖先有适应作用的行为对生活在都市扩张时代的居民来说也许不再有适应性。
Karachi is mostly made up of flat or rolling plains with hills on the western and northern boundaries of the urban sprawl.
Karachi主要被弥补舱内甲板或辗压平原与小山在城市延伸的西部和北界限。
DRIVING along South Street, where the Los Angeles sprawl meets sprawling Orange County, you enter and leave Cerritos three times.
随意蔓延的洛杉矶和同样风格的橙县地盘，在南部大道接上头了。
Here in the heart of the sprawl, I'd found, well, heart.
在这杂乱无章的中心，我恰恰找到了，心。
With the rapid economic development, and acceleration of urbanization, many cities in China began to appear urban sprawl.
随着我国经济的高速发展，城市化的步伐加快，中国的许多大中城市开始出现城市蔓延。
A sprawl of thousands of Atlantic walruses covers a haul-out site in Alaska's Togiak National Wildlife Refuge.
阿拉斯加托吉克国家野生动物保护区，数千头懒散的大西洋海象占居了一大片地区。
Wind-sculpted dunes sprawl across the Sesriem and Sossusvlei dune area in Namibia's Namib Desert.
风蚀刻出来的沙丘蜿蜒穿过位于纳米比亚纳米布沙漠的色斯林和索苏斯韦雷沙丘地区。
It shows the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is.
这显示出了我们的文明程度、全球扩张的模式、以及现如今人类对地球的有多大影响。
They fear the party may lose ground with moderate middle-class types who dislike urban sprawl and unfettered oil-drilling.
如若不然，共和党人担心会因此失去温和派中产阶级的支持——他们反感城镇无计划扩张、厌恶肆无忌惮的石油开采。
The biggest urban sprawl of all, Los Angeles, the center of a massive entertainment industry.
其中城市扩张范围最大的是洛杉矶，这个庞大的娱乐业中心
