sprawl英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An ungainly sprawling posture. countable,uncountable
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city. countable,uncountable

— 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.
A 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. countable,uncountable

动词 v.

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

词形变化

sprawls present,singular,third-person sprawling participle,present sprawled participle,past sprawled past sprawls plural

词汇关系

衍生词

antisprawl asprawl spraddle sprawler sprawliness sprawling sprawlingness sprawly suburban sprawl urban sprawl

词源

词源 1

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.

词源 2

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.