sprawling

adj.

1. 蔓延的；杂乱无序伸展的
   spreading in an untidy way
   1. a modern sprawling town
      一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇

1. See also: She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up... They sprawled in lawn chairs, snoozing... He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground. sprawled
2. VERB 扩展;延伸
   If you say that a place sprawls, you mean that it covers a large area of land.
   1. The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne...
      州立休闲区在比斯坎岛南端，占地 900 多英亩。
   2. If we continue to sprawl across the land, we're in for a terrible future...
      如果继续扩展地盘的话，我们将来就会遇到大麻烦。
   3. The sprawling city contained some 4m people.
      这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约 400 万人口。
3. N-UNCOUNT (城市的)杂乱无章地扩展的地区
   You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.
   1. The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
      安卡拉整个肆意扩展的城区容纳了 260 多万人口。
4. VERB 肆意扩展;杂乱无章地延伸
   If something sprawls, its structure is disorganized or it lacks direction.
   1. Boylan plays with language, letting the prose sprawl about before tightening it suddenly to great effect...
      博伊兰随心所欲地驾驭着语言，先是任文章自由铺展，然后猛地收住，产生了绝好的效果。
   2. He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess.
      他老是忘词，歌被唱得乱七八糟。

1. The city is a sprawling behemoth with no heart.
   这座城市无计划地向外扩展着，成为一个中心缺失的庞然大物。
2. He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground.
   他用膝盖抵住那个人的大腿内侧，将他按趴在地上。
3. The sprawling city contained some 4m people.
   这个不断扩张的城市容纳了约400万人口。
4. He keeps forgetting the words and the song is a sprawling mess.
   他老是忘词，歌被唱得乱七八糟。
5. The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider.
   路仿佛没有尽头，街道就像触足伸开的蜘蛛编织成的黑网。
6. This sprawling web has completely reshaped Beijing since the city was awarded the Olympic Games seven years ago.
   自从北京七年前成为奥林匹克举办城市以后，这个发达的交通网络就彻底的改变了北京。
7. More than 40 other people have been arrested in the sprawling police investigation.
   在这场涉及面越来越广的警方调查中，还有40余人已经被捕。
8. It will be come from another sector of Samsung's sprawling business empire.
   它将来自三星不断蔓延的商业帝国的另一个部门。
9. A sprawling industry has developed to help Chinese get money out.
   在帮助中国人将资金转移到海外这个问题上，已经形成了一个庞大的产业。
10. I tripped and went sprawling.
    我绊了一下，摔了个四脚朝天。
11. Officially, the elevators and escalators in New York's sprawling subway system are incredibly reliable.
    据传，纽约市地铁系统散布得杂乱无章，里面的升降电梯和自动扶梯的安全系数都很低。
12. Doctors are struggling to contain the outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern capital of Goma.
    医生正在想方设法把霍乱控制在刚果首都东部城市戈马的一大型难民营中。
13. For me, that silence is the great subject-and central problem-of fraser's sprawling work.
    对我而言，沉默是弗雷泽天巨著中一个重大的主题，也是个中心问题。
14. The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
    她眼前的城镇，就像一个婴孩一夜之间长大成为忙碌不停、匍匐行进的巨人。
15. The initial wave of suburbanization was sprawling and featureless.
    最初的郊区化和无特色的浪潮是广阔的。
16. Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure.
    旧大陆的一年一生的攀爬植物，在美国南部广泛种植，并被用作食物，草料和绿肥。
17. Visitors from Berlin and from around the world are crammed into the sprawling Messe Berlin, where the gadget expo is taking place.
    从柏林游客和来自世界各地的人挤在了广阔的展览柏林，那里的小工具博览会正在发生。
18. Old China and the Olympic Games will meet in this sprawling city on the Yellow Sea.
    旧中国和奥运会将在黄海之滨这座日益壮大的城市里相遇。
19. He saw a black sprawling prison full of tiny black cells in which people live.
    他看见一座不成格局的黑色监狱，许许多多黑色小牢房里都住着人。
20. The sprawling lights of Los Angeles and the surrounding area seen from Inspiration Point, Mount Lowe, ca.
    洛杉矶的广阔的灯光及周边地区从灵感点，洛山，长约看到。
21. A broad entryway flanked by rosebushes led to the sprawling house of marble floors and wide windows.
    一条宽敞的通道两旁种着蔷薇，通往有着大理石地板和大窗户的房子。
22. Middle-class housing developments are sprawling north of the city with little evident planning.
    中产阶层住宅开发项目不断向城市北部蔓延，几乎毫无计划可言。
23. Outlying areas of the peninsula are often occupied by sprawling palm oil plantations.
    半岛的边远区域经常为绵延的棕榈油种植园占据。
24. Because a diary allows writers to impose a coherent narrative on messy, sprawling, upsetting life.
    因为日记能让写日记的人对繁杂、散乱和令人苦恼的生活进行连贯性叙述。
25. Toy companies and running shoe makers built their sprawling factories there, and workers migrated to the new city.
    玩具企业和跑步鞋制造商将大型工厂设在那里，工人也纷纷迁移到这个新城市。
26. I loved the vigorous, sprawling city.
    我喜欢那个充满热情，放纵的城市。
27. I knocked into her in the corridor and sent her sprawling.
    我在走廊里跟她撞了个满怀，把她撞了个四脚朝天。
28. A decade on, the sole superpower is not going to shuffle off its sprawling interests and commitments overnight.
    十年过去了，这个唯一的超级大国不会在一夜之间洗脱其纷繁芜杂的利益和承诺。
29. The sprawling city boasts lush parks, unique architecture, and excellent galleries.
    这个开阔的城市以其葱翠的公园、独到的建筑和精美的画廊著称。

noun

1. an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

   Synonym:    sprawl

adj

1. spreading out in different directions
   1. sprawling handwriting
   2. straggling branches
   3. straggly hair

   Synonym:    stragglingramblingstraggly