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单词 straggle
释义
straggle
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk
/ˈstræɡ.əl/us
/ˈstræɡ.əl/
tomoveorspreaduntidilyand insmallnumbersoramounts:
四散，散落
I put myhairup 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。
Ayearafter thehurricane,touristsarebeginningto straggle(= come insmallnumbers)back to theregion.飓风过去一年之后，又开始有游客零星地来到这个地区。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • halting
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the otheridiom
  • have two left feetidiom
  • hobble
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • reel
  • squeeze
  • teeter
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • tottering
  • tumble
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Spreading and scattering
Slow and moving slowly
(Definition ofstragglefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

straggle| American Dictionary

straggle
verb[I]
us
/ˈstræɡ·əl/
tomovealoneor insmallgroupsslowlyand usuallyseparatedindistanceortimefrom those who wentearlier:
Theplayersstraggled in for themorningpracticesession.

straggler

noun[C]us
/ˈstræɡ·lər/
Iwantall youchildrentostaytogether andholdhandswhencrossingastreet– nostragglers!
(Definition ofstragglefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstraggle

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A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls.
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This host of course is not normal and shows straggling.
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Not long afterward, residents straggled back and street life became more active.
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Is it prepared to acknowledge that this project should go ahead as it is, without straggling appendages?
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And some of the new towns do look more like straggling villages than towns.
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The straggling nature of the buildings here would make it a very heavy burden on the local authority.
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This nation is engaged in a deadlystragglewith its competitors and no one can foresee the end.
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It will also lead and is already leading to astraggleof refugees from the poor countries to the rich.
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There unexpectedly hove in sight a very large and straggling fleet.
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It is this combination of an appearance of a straggling village and monotony of building which produces this not altogether satisfactory appearance.
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Our rearguard straggles out into conditions which are crueller than barbarism.
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To suggest that that is straggling and ribbon development is going a little far.
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It is much better that they should do that rather thanstraggleback in unregulated mass formation.
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The principal lambing period should be over in six weeks but, with any flock, it willstragglea bit.
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We cannot afford to let this small island become a mass of straggling villages, one adjacent to the other.
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