喜樂美語
  1. 1v/sprɔːl/lie with arms and legs spread out四肢攤開地躺／坐

    To lie or sit with your arms and legs stretched out in a lazy, careless way; also, to fall forward so that your arms and legs are spread out.

    「sprawl」的畫面可以想成「手腳往外攤開、沒有收好」。用在人身上可能是懶洋洋癱在沙發上，也可能是絆倒後整個人摔成四腳朝天——共同點都是四肢張開、不受控。跟 lie down（單純躺下）比，sprawl 多了「沒形沒狀」的感覺；跟 relax 比，它描述的是身體的形狀，不是心情。

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo sprawled on the sofa and watched the rain.

    中文翻譯里歐四肢攤開地躺在沙發上，然後看著雨。

    常見搭配

    • sprawl out

      四肢攤開

      to stretch your arms and legs out while lying or sitting

      He sprawled out on the sofa and closed his eyes.

    • go sprawling

      摔得四腳朝天

      to fall over with your arms and legs spread out

      I tripped on a stone and went sprawling.

    • send somebody sprawling

      把某人撞得跌倒

      to knock someone over so that they fall with limbs spread out

      The wave sent him sprawling on the sand.

    • sprawl across something

      橫攤在某物上

      to lie stretched out over a surface

      Books sprawled across the whole table.

    用法接近

    liereclinespreadtumble

    意思相反

    sit upcurl up

  2. 2n/sprɔːl/urban sprawl都市蔓延

    A large area of a town or city where buildings have spread out over the land in an way that nobody planned.

    這個 sprawl 是名詞，指城市像攤開的手腳一樣一直往外長，蓋得散亂、沒有規劃。它帶著明顯的負面語氣——說 urban sprawl 的人通常在抱怨：路變長、綠地變少、什麼都得開車。它跟 growth 不一樣：growth 是中性的成長，sprawl 幾乎一定是批評，說的是「長得亂」。

    常見搭配

    • urban sprawl

      都市蔓延

      the untidy spreading of a city over the land around it

      We drove through miles of urban sprawl before we reached the countryside.

    • suburban sprawl

      郊區蔓延

      the same spreading, seen in the areas outside a city

      Suburban sprawl has swallowed three old villages.

    • miles of sprawl

      綿延數英里的雜亂市區

      a very large stretch of this kind of building

      There are miles of sprawl between the airport and the old town.

    • limit sprawl

      限制都市蔓延

      to stop a city from spreading further outwards

      The new rules are meant to limit sprawl.

    意思相近

    urban sprawlribbon developmentoverspill

    意思相反

    green beltcity centre

  3. 3v/sprɔːl/spread untidily across the land (of a town)向外雜亂擴張

    If buildings or a town sprawl, they spread out over a wide area in an way that nobody planned.

    這是 sprawl 用在城鎮和建築上的動詞：房子一片一片往外攤，沒有邊界也沒有規劃。它跟人癱在沙發上那一層其實是同一個畫面——都是往外攤開、收不回來，只是主詞從人換成了城鎮。語氣一樣偏負面，說一個城市 sprawls，多半是在說它長得雜亂。

    常見搭配

    • sprawl for miles

      蔓延好幾英里

      to spread out over a very long distance

      The suburbs sprawl for miles in every direction.

    • sprawl across something

      橫向蔓延過某地

      to spread out untidily over an area

      The camp sprawled across the whole hillside.

    • a sprawling city

      一座向外蔓延的城市

      a city that has spread out widely and untidily

      It is a sprawling city with no clear centre.

    意思相近

    spreadstraggleextendramble

    意思相反

    contractshrink

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

sprawlverb/spɹɔːl/

  • 1

    To sit with the limbs spread out.

    • There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.
    • But most of all I like to sit in the dark with all these hearty souls sprawled around me on the floor and hear them talk. I am sorry to say that I can never believe that floor-sprawling is anything but a pose; I have tried it and it is not comfortable but it looks well in the flickering fire-light, and is in good magazine-story tradition.
  • 2

    To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

    • The hatched young ones are ſodl to thoſe who breed them up, and theſe try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ſoon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ſprawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ſtruggling.
    • A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise
  • 3

    governmenthobbieslifestyleTo scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.

sprawlnoun/spɹɔːl/

  • 1

    An ungainly sprawling posture.

  • 2

    A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

    • He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.
    • Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land.
  • 3

    governmenthobbieslifestyleA 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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