1VERB 骑;跨坐;叉开双腿坐 If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it. 骑;跨坐;叉开双腿坐
He sat down, straddling the chair. [VERB noun]
他跨坐在椅子上。
SYN sit astride, bestride, mount, sit with legs either side of
2VERB 横跨,跨越(河流、道路、边境等) If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it. 横跨,跨越(河流、道路、边境等)
A small wooden bridge straddled the dike. [VERB noun]
3VERB 横跨,跨越,同属(不同时期、群体或活动领域等) Someone or something that straddles different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all. 横跨,跨越,同属(不同时期、群体或活动领域等)
Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire. [VERB noun]
我们生活的这个时期所经历的变革可能是罗马帝国灭亡以来最巨大的。
He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam. [VERB noun]