straggle

verb

1. 蔓生；杂乱地蔓延；散布
   to grow, spread or move in an untidy way in different directions
   1. The town straggled to an end and the fields began.
      城边上横七竖八的建筑不再蔓延，田野展现出来。
2. 落伍；掉队；落在后面
   to move slowly behind a group of people that you are with so that you become separated from them
   1. On the way the kids straggled behind us.
      在路上，那几个孩子落在了我们后面。

1. VERB 散乱地移动;零星地走
   If people straggle somewhere, they move there slowly, in small groups with large, irregular gaps between them.
   1. They came straggling up the cliff road...
      他们零零散散地沿着悬崖小路走上来。
   2. The other boys straggled away, some to their work in the kitchen, some to the great hall.
      其他男孩散开了，有些去厨房干活去了，有些去大厅了。
2. VERB 散乱地分布;散布
   If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way.
   1. Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face...
      她那灰白的头发一缕缕地披散在脸旁。
   2. They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
      他们现在已经远离了最远的零星分布的郊区了。

1. They came straggling up the cliff road
   他们零零散散地沿着悬崖小路走上来。
2. The other boys straggled away, some to their work in the kitchen, some to the great hall.
   其他男孩散开了，有些去厨房干活去了，有些去大厅了。
3. Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face
   她那灰白的头发一缕缕地披散在脸旁。
4. They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
   他们现在已经远离了最远的零星分布的郊区了。
5. Close up. Don't straggle along.
   跟上队伍，不要哩哩啦啦的。
6. Keep up with the others and don't straggle.
   跟上其他人，别落伍。
7. Keep them going. don't let them straggle.
   叫他们快走，别散开。
8. The long straggle between the strikers and their employers has not yet played out.
   罢工者和他们的雇主间的长期斗争尚未结束。
9. They refused to be enslaved and rose in straggle.
   他们不甘心受奴役而起来斗争了。
10. In the early 1990s and under the influence of revolutionaries, Chen Fan, chief editor of Su Newspaper, broke away from the constitutionalists and engaged himself in the straggle against the Qing Imperial Court.
    20世纪初，《苏报》主人陈范，在革命派的影响下，与立宪主义决裂，走上反清革命之路。
11. Yi Nationality heads She Chong-ming and An Bang-yan launched anti-Ming armed straggle of the Southwest groups in the end of the Ming Dynasty. This is the result from extreme class and nationality oppressing policy of feudal court.
    明末川南，贵州彝族首领奢崇明，安邦彦发起了西南多民族的反明武装斗争，这是封建朝廷极端的阶级与民族压迫政策的结果。
12. Additionally, this thought represents distinctively aseries of important principles, including the combination of firm principles and flexible strategies, achieving peace by straggle, proletarian internationalism, and patriotism, Therefore, Lenin's thought of foreign policy of peace has both historic and practical significance.
    列宁的和平外交思想还鲜明地体现了一系列重要原则，包括原则的坚定性与策略的灵活性相结合原则，以斗争求和平原则，无产阶级国际主义原则及爱国主义原则。
13. Dismisses the official falls the reason to divide into the political straggle and the crime two kinds;
    将官员的黜降原因分为政治斗争和犯罪两种；
14. When using the technics of stannum soldering to transfer the carbon nanotubes to the copper fundus has a flaw that the carbon nanotubes will straggle in the copper so that the field emission of it is not ideal.
    采用锡焊方法转移至铜基底工艺存在碳纳米管只是零散分布于铜箔上的缺陷，致其场发射性能不理想。

noun

1. a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
   1. a straggle of outbuildings
   2. a straggle of followers

verb

1. go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
   1. Branches straggling out quite far

   Synonym:    sprawl

2. wander from a direct or straight course

   Synonym:    sidetrackdepartdigress