sprawl
vi. 伸开手足躺, 爬行, 蔓生, 蔓延 vt. 懒散地伸开, 使蔓生, 使不规则地伸展 n. 伸开手足躺卧姿势
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教材释义与例句
蔓生；伸开手足躺卧姿势
懒散地伸开；使蔓生
蔓延；伸开手足躺；无计划地扩展
释义与例句
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An ungainly sprawling posture.
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A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
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A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
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To sit with the limbs spread out.
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To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
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To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
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From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.
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