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straggle

/strag-uhl/US // ˈstræg əl //UK // (ˈstræɡəl) //

蹒跚而行,流浪,踉跄而行,蹒跚学步

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    strag·gled, strag·gling.

    • : to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
    • : to wander about in a scattered fashion; ramble.
    • : to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals: The trees straggle over the countryside.

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Examples

  • The humpbacks would slap their tails to keep the prey inside that sphere, and pick off the straggling fish nearer to the outside.

  • Better to straggle along on Zoom, seeing one another’s faces, than mask up for eight hours or more.

  • One by one, the boys straggle out to the cars, again looking sleepy and hung-over.

  • It was plain that the Indians were dogging our steps day and night, and the men were warned not to straggle.

  • The Rebel army had made slower marches, and the soldiers could not straggle; they were in an enemy's country.

  • Soon groups of natives began to straggle up, not in regular formation this time.

  • The agile and powerful Zulu, however, was half up in a moment, and the straggle became a hand-to-hand one.

  • He could either possess his soul in patience until the mounted contingent began to straggle back, or risk another rock-fall.