astride的意思|astride的解释-里氏词典

astride [ə'straɪd]

ad. 跨着

Ladies ride horses by sitting astride or side-saddle.
女子骑马可以跨骑也可以坐横鞍.
So as to straddle or bridge; astride.
跨着以便跨过或横过；横跨
The town lies astride the River Howard.
城镇位在霍华德河的两旁。

astride

[ adv ]

with one leg on each side

<adv.all>

she sat astride the chair

with the legs stretched far apart

<adv.all>

Astride \A*stride"\, adv. [Pref. a- + stride.]
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with
the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. --Sir W.
Scott.

Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose.
--Longfellow.

By comparison, Hoover Dam, one of the highest concrete dams in the world, is 726 feet tall astride the Colorado River and 1,244 feet long with a 660-foot thick concrete base.
In the most recent trouble, which began in November and has been steadily escalating, the two sides accuse each other of trying to grab a sparsely populated area astride Thailand's Phitsanulok province and Sayaboury province in Laos.
San Francisco sits astride the San Andreas fault, a crack in the earth where the Pacific plate is slowly sliding north compared with the rest of California, which rests on the North American Plate.
Mr. Brendle swings his chopper to the east of Seattle, where thousands of acres of farm land now sprout skeletons of new houses, and evergreens standing astride hilltops have had their tips sheared to afford new homeowners unencumbered views.
Similarly, Daniel Ortega is astride Managua in 1987 because he and his friends ran a successful coup against the non-Sandinista leaders of Nicaragua's revolution in 1979.
There are voluptuous mermaids, including a Chinese ivory odalisque, and wistful ones, such as Frederick Stuart Church's 19th-century etching of a mermaid astride a goggle-eyed sea horse.
"My television career blossomed into something I never expected," she said. "I never had dreams of television or an acting career." Millions saw her astride a horse in a TV commercial, carrying cologne on a tray to a waiting, handsome young man.
The hero Don Alonso appears at the start astride one of them, declares his infatuation with Dona Ines and canters off, only to return on foot to discuss with his servant how he may win her.
"The economic lifeline of the industrial world runs from the (Persian) Gulf and we cannot permit a dictator such as this to sit astride that economic lifeline," Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Tuesday.
Campuses are adorned with colorful banners two and three stories high that show radical students astride the border between the two Koreas.
Mauritania, situated astride the Sahara desert, led the list for instability with a 95 score out of a possible 100.

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