straddle / ˈstræd l /

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straddle3 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb

strad·dled, strad·dling.

  1. to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
  2. to stand wide apart, as the legs.
  3. to favor or appear to favor both sides of an issue, political division, or the like, at once; maintain an equivocal position.
v. 有主动词 verb

strad·dled, strad·dling.

  1. to walk, stand, or sit with one leg on each side of; stand or sit astride of: to straddle a horse.
  2. to spread wide apart.
  3. to favor or appear to favor both sides of.
n. 名词 noun
  1. an act or instance of straddling.
  2. the distance straddled over.
  3. the taking of a noncommittal position.
  4. Finance. an option consisting of a put and a call combined, both at the same current market price and for the same specified period.a similar transaction in securities or futures in which options to buy and sell the same security or commodity are purchased simultaneously in order to hedge one's risk.

straddle 近义词

v. 动词 verb

bestride

straddle 的近义词 3
v. 动词 verb

sit or stand on both sides

straddle 的近义词 6

更多straddle例句

  1. This precarious straddle renders them — and the brain itself — vulnerable to infections.
  2. Such carefully designed prescription drugs delicately straddle the line between function and sacrifice.
  3. That ability to straddle two sides of an acrimonious divide has served Leavell well—not only in politics, but also in music.
  4. Spend some time with Fiasco and you can watch him straddle that line all day long.
  5. They're mostly girls who straddle the line between geeky and bad-ass, a look familiar to most of today's high-school students.
  6. In an Internet video announcing his candidacy, Brown attempted this straddle without mentioning Schwarzenegger by name.
  7. And I would steal her dolls, pull their dresses for shame over their heads, and set them straddle the banisters.
  8. So they dispatched the tortoise to the earth again, the monkey sitting a-straddle of his back.
  9. The ridge grew narrower, sheerer, and in places they had to straddle it, legs dangling precariously to left and right.
  10. Beside the road we saw a plow-boy straddle, whistling on a stile.
  11. The "Hecla" was a-straddle of the well, and rows of men were tossing at her brake-beams.