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astride

/uh-strahyd/US // əˈstraɪd //UK // (əˈstraɪd) //

跨越,横跨,横卧,跨越式

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Definitions

prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : with a leg on each side of; straddling: She sat astride the horse.
    • : on both sides of: Budapest lies astride the river.
    • : in a dominant position within: Napoleon stands astride the early 19th century like a giant.
  1. 1
    • : in a posture of striding or straddling; with legs apart or on either side of something.

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Examples

  • For many companies in Salinas, the man standing astride the gap between what happens in the field and the record-keeping needs of a modern farming business is a 50-year-old technology consultant named Paul Mariottini.

  • Here being astride Nuro, a company he and Jiajun Zhu, another former Google engineer, started in 2016, when their fundamental view of reality just … changed.

  • Lane rose, but then he motioned to the chute, where the other cowboys were sitting astride the fences.

  • Director Ridley Scott, however, must have found the image of Cameron Diaz astride a gleaming sports car too good not to show.

  • Still worse to imagine that we'd be doing all this while rolling around town on a Schwinn, rather than astride our majestic steed.

  • It was as though Idol, once a goliath astride the entertainment stage, was suddenly, just a television show.

  • The same ginger-haired model served Caravaggio for his Amor Vincit Omnia, where Cupid stands astride an unmade bed.

  • Matt lost not an instant in dropping the club, getting astride the Comet, and starting.

  • And when finally somebody turned on the lights, Jeff Weedham was on the floor, two cops astride him.

  • "Now I know why you wear that hideous divided habit and ride astride," said Gwynne as they started.

  • Unaided, the 6th Gurkhas got well astride the ridge, but had to fall back owing to the lack of his support.

  • Two gladiators armed with pillows sit astride a spar and try to knock each other off.