straggle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An irregular, spread-out group.
    — Twenty-five hundred hands snapped at a slant to the hats. The admiral strolled onto the field, smoking, followed by a straggle of officers, walking carelessly to symbolize the privileges of rank, but straggling at distances from the admiral strictly regulated by the number of sleeve stripes on each stragger.
  2. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.
    — Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.
动词 v.
  1. To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind. intransitive
    — He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
  2. To act in a disorderly and irregular way. intransitive
    — straggling pistol shots
  3. To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
    — In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.

词形变化

straggles present,singular,third-person straggling participle,present straggled participle,past straggled past straggles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
straggler stragglesome stragglingly straggling money straggly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).
词源 2
From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).
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