asprawl

a. 伸开手足躺卧的 adv. 伸开手足躺卧地

发音

/əˈspɹɔːl/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).

    1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.

    1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces

prep.
  1. 1.

    Sprawling over or across.

词源

From a- + sprawl.

来源：wiktionary