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straggling

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

步履蹒跚,蹒跚学步,步履蹒跚的,蹒跚的

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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

  • I was totally unprepared and only got one arm around, the other was left straggling and I accidentally cupped his balls.

  • The girl was alone, lying with her head upon the table, and her hair straggling over it.

  • They are straggling, and have wide and apparently deep channels between them.

  • By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.

  • The edge of the reef off the latter island is not well defined, for we passed several straggling rocks.

  • Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.