Definition of straddle in English:

straddle

verb ˈstrad(ə)lˈstrædl

[with object]

1Sit or stand with one leg on either side of.
骑；跨，跨立于
he turned the chair round and straddled it
他把椅子转过来，然后跨坐在上面。
Example sentencesExamples
- I walked into the room and straddled my director's chair.
- Place the appropriate amount of weight on the bar and straddle it with your feet just a little wider than hip-distance apart.
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
- But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs.
- Alex was lying in the couch while Gabriel straddled one of the chairs by the dining table halfway across the room.
- Her knees straddled his stomach to either side, pinning him beneath her.
- She straddled the chair and rested her forehead on the back of it.
- Matthew walked away for a second to another table and came back holding a third chair before placing it down backwards on one side of the table, straddling it as he sat down.
- David sat across the small room from her, straddling his computer chair, with his arms crossed over the backrest and his head on them.
- I sat down, straddling the chair opposite the young man before me.
- He smiled at me, turned his chair around and straddled it.
- Max straddled the bike next to the girl's stand and gave her a wide smile.
- Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts.
- I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike.
- She was an expert horse women with a side saddle but as she had never ridden straddling a horse and she didn't know if she'd be good at it.
- He cried out and rolled on his side as she straddled him and grabbed the collar of his jacket.
- He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate.
- He tossed his books on the table and straddled the chair opposite me.
- She straddled his chest, keeping him from standing up.
- Stand tall with your feet straddling either side of the step, toes forward.
Synonyms
sit/stand astride, bestride, bestraddle
mount, get on
1. 1.1 Place (one's legs) wide apart.
  叉开（双腿）
  he shifted his legs, straddling them to keep his balance
  他移动双腿，叉开来以保持平衡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
  As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
2. 1.2archaic no object Stand, walk, or sit with one's legs wide apart.
  〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐）
  the colonel straddled in front of the fire
  Example sentencesExamples
  He straddled over to the car and gently slid her into the backseat.
  At points the passage was wide enough to make straddling difficult but eventually we were able to climb up to a drier section and yet more challenging climbing.
3. 1.3 Extend across or be situated on both sides of.
  跨越
  a mountain range straddling the Franco-Swiss border
  一条跨越法国和瑞士边境的山脉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city.
  Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.
  The views they have come up with straddle the entire range of options.
  The appellation Nuits-St-Georges lies both sides of the town which straddles the small river Meuzin and incorporates the vineyards of neighbouring Prémeaux-Prissey to the south.
  The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern.
  Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents.
  The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes.
  Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria.
  The company's client base straddles a wide variety of sectors.
  The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders.
  Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side.
  By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality.
  With a heatwave currently straddling both sides of the Atlantic, isn't it about time we engaged in a little necessary clothes-culling?
  Her excellent backing band here are adept at straddling the border between folk and rock, and play sensitively throughout, but Denny's vocal talents are best showcased when things are a bit mellower.
  The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator.
  The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River.
  It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.
  The most loyal fans seem to be those in areas straddling the Tipperary border.
  We took off towards the magnificent mountains that straddled the Sligo / Leitrim border.
  Our property straddled the narrow ridge and fell away steeply on both sides.
  Synonyms
  lie on both sides of, be situated on both sides of, extend across
  span
4. 1.4North American Take up or maintain an equivocal position with regard to (a political issue)
  〈北美〉对（政治问题）持骑墙态度
  a man who had straddled the issue of taxes
  一个对税收问题持骑墙态度的人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies?
  But long ago he blew a chance by straddling the war issue - opposing going to war without a multilateral coalition yet empowering Bush to do so.
  He straddles issues with as much vigor as most politicians, but nonetheless manages to retain a reputation as a straight talking guy who says what he means and means what he says.
  The Democrats' leaders in Congress have tried to straddle the issue.
  Can the Democrats continue to straddle the values issues under those circumstances?
  This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle.
  Synonyms
  be equivocal about, be undecided about, be non-committal about, equivocate about, vacillate about, waver about
  British hum and haw
  informal sit on the fence
5. 1.5 Fire at (a target) with shots or bombs so that they fall short of and beyond it.
  夹叉射击（目标）；夹叉轰炸（目标）
  the crew of a plane straddled the submarine with depth charges
  Example sentencesExamples
  Antiaircraft fire shells straddled his sitting Kingfisher as Oliver pulled Coumbre and Jacobs aboard.

noun ˈstrad(ə)lˈstrædl

1An act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart.
〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐）
a sideways-on stance such as a straddle
Example sentencesExamples
- She stretched her legs and arms, and almost fell asleep in her straddle.
- She positioned herself, unknowingly into a straddle.
- The hardest part of this trick is getting your hips to start moving upward from the straddle.
- Over time, mix in the boxer's shuffle and the side straddle.
- Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle, and you've got to touch your toes.
- The height of romanticism; there was little else I could do apart from down my drink, suppress a ladylike belch and swing my legs around you in an elegant straddle.
2Stock Market
A simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down.
〔股票〕同价买卖（同时以固定价格买卖证券或商品，让买者不论证券或商品的价格是上涨还是下跌都能获利）
Example sentencesExamples
- When they think that the saturation point has been reached, they reverse their position: they replace their existing straddles with the opposite ones.
- Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations.

Derivatives

straddler

noun

She holds the position of a cultural straddler and the conflict between her identities finds its debate within her one-act plays.
Example sentencesExamples
- They are rallying the faithful and reaching out to the fence straddlers in the final push for your vote.
- People who live together and then want a big traditional wedding are very conspicuous fence straddlers.
- Fines, a world-class culture straddler, smiles patiently and gives me just what I need, a decision.
- At least the Democrats have a candidate smart enough to avoid playing into the public's just-forming impression of him as a straddler and positioner.

Origin

Mid 16th century: alteration of dialect striddle, back-formation from dialect striddling 'astride', from stride + the adverbial suffix -ling.

Rhymes

addle, paddle, saddle, skedaddle, staddle

Definition of straddle in US English:

straddle

verbˈstradlˈstrædl

[with object]

1Sit or stand with one leg on either side of.
骑；跨，跨立于
he turned the chair around and straddled it
他把椅子转过来，然后跨坐在上面。
Example sentencesExamples
- He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate.
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
- I sat down, straddling the chair opposite the young man before me.
- David sat across the small room from her, straddling his computer chair, with his arms crossed over the backrest and his head on them.
- He tossed his books on the table and straddled the chair opposite me.
- Stand tall with your feet straddling either side of the step, toes forward.
- I walked into the room and straddled my director's chair.
- Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts.
- He cried out and rolled on his side as she straddled him and grabbed the collar of his jacket.
- Matthew walked away for a second to another table and came back holding a third chair before placing it down backwards on one side of the table, straddling it as he sat down.
- He smiled at me, turned his chair around and straddled it.
- But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs.
- Place the appropriate amount of weight on the bar and straddle it with your feet just a little wider than hip-distance apart.
- She straddled his chest, keeping him from standing up.
- Max straddled the bike next to the girl's stand and gave her a wide smile.
- She straddled the chair and rested her forehead on the back of it.
- She was an expert horse women with a side saddle but as she had never ridden straddling a horse and she didn't know if she'd be good at it.
- Her knees straddled his stomach to either side, pinning him beneath her.
- Alex was lying in the couch while Gabriel straddled one of the chairs by the dining table halfway across the room.
- I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike.
Synonyms
sit astride, stand astride, bestride, bestraddle
1. 1.1 Place (one's legs) wide apart.
  叉开（双腿）
  he shifted his legs, straddling them to keep his balance
  他移动双腿，叉开来以保持平衡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
  She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
2. 1.2archaic no object Stand, walk, or sit with one's legs wide apart.
  〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐）
  Example sentencesExamples
  He straddled over to the car and gently slid her into the backseat.
  At points the passage was wide enough to make straddling difficult but eventually we were able to climb up to a drier section and yet more challenging climbing.
3. 1.3 Extend across or be situated on both sides of.
  跨越
  a mountain range straddling the Franco-Swiss border
  一条跨越法国和瑞士边境的山脉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The appellation Nuits-St-Georges lies both sides of the town which straddles the small river Meuzin and incorporates the vineyards of neighbouring Prémeaux-Prissey to the south.
  Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents.
  It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.
  By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality.
  The company's client base straddles a wide variety of sectors.
  The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator.
  The views they have come up with straddle the entire range of options.
  The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern.
  San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city.
  The most loyal fans seem to be those in areas straddling the Tipperary border.
  Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side.
  Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.
  With a heatwave currently straddling both sides of the Atlantic, isn't it about time we engaged in a little necessary clothes-culling?
  Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria.
  The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes.
  The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River.
  Our property straddled the narrow ridge and fell away steeply on both sides.
  Her excellent backing band here are adept at straddling the border between folk and rock, and play sensitively throughout, but Denny's vocal talents are best showcased when things are a bit mellower.
  The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders.
  We took off towards the magnificent mountains that straddled the Sligo / Leitrim border.
  Synonyms
  lie on both sides of, be situated on both sides of, extend across
4. 1.4North American Take up or maintain an equivocal position with regard to (a political issue)
  〈北美〉对（政治问题）持骑墙态度
  a man who had straddled the issue of taxes
  一个对税收问题持骑墙态度的人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Democrats' leaders in Congress have tried to straddle the issue.
  This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle.
  He straddles issues with as much vigor as most politicians, but nonetheless manages to retain a reputation as a straight talking guy who says what he means and means what he says.
  Can the Democrats continue to straddle the values issues under those circumstances?
  But long ago he blew a chance by straddling the war issue - opposing going to war without a multilateral coalition yet empowering Bush to do so.
  Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies?
  Synonyms
  be equivocal about, be undecided about, be non-committal about, equivocate about, vacillate about, waver about

nounˈstradlˈstrædl

1An act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart.
〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐）
Example sentencesExamples
- The hardest part of this trick is getting your hips to start moving upward from the straddle.
- She positioned herself, unknowingly into a straddle.
- Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle, and you've got to touch your toes.
- The height of romanticism; there was little else I could do apart from down my drink, suppress a ladylike belch and swing my legs around you in an elegant straddle.
- She stretched her legs and arms, and almost fell asleep in her straddle.
- Over time, mix in the boxer's shuffle and the side straddle.
2Stock Market
A simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down.
〔股票〕同价买卖（同时以固定价格买卖证券或商品，让买者不论证券或商品的价格是上涨还是下跌都能获利）
Example sentencesExamples
- Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations.
- When they think that the saturation point has been reached, they reverse their position: they replace their existing straddles with the opposite ones.

Origin

Mid 16th century: alteration of dialect striddle, back-formation from dialect striddling ‘astride’, from stride + the adverbial suffix -ling.

词汇	straddle
释义	Definition of straddle in English: straddle verb ˈstrad(ə)lˈstrædl [with object] 1Sit or stand with one leg on either side of. 骑；跨，跨立于 he turned the chair round and straddled it 他把椅子转过来，然后跨坐在上面。 Example sentencesExamples I walked into the room and straddled my director's chair. Place the appropriate amount of weight on the bar and straddle it with your feet just a little wider than hip-distance apart. He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back. But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs. Alex was lying in the couch while Gabriel straddled one of the chairs by the dining table halfway across the room. Her knees straddled his stomach to either side, pinning him beneath her. She straddled the chair and rested her forehead on the back of it. Matthew walked away for a second to another table and came back holding a third chair before placing it down backwards on one side of the table, straddling it as he sat down. David sat across the small room from her, straddling his computer chair, with his arms crossed over the backrest and his head on them. I sat down, straddling the chair opposite the young man before me. He smiled at me, turned his chair around and straddled it. Max straddled the bike next to the girl's stand and gave her a wide smile. Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts. I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike. She was an expert horse women with a side saddle but as she had never ridden straddling a horse and she didn't know if she'd be good at it. He cried out and rolled on his side as she straddled him and grabbed the collar of his jacket. He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate. He tossed his books on the table and straddled the chair opposite me. She straddled his chest, keeping him from standing up. Stand tall with your feet straddling either side of the step, toes forward. Synonyms sit/stand astride, bestride, bestraddle mount, get on 1.1 Place (one's legs) wide apart. 叉开（双腿） he shifted his legs, straddling them to keep his balance 他移动双腿，叉开来以保持平衡。 Example sentencesExamples She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck. As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart. 1.2archaic no object Stand, walk, or sit with one's legs wide apart. 〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐） the colonel straddled in front of the fire Example sentencesExamples He straddled over to the car and gently slid her into the backseat. At points the passage was wide enough to make straddling difficult but eventually we were able to climb up to a drier section and yet more challenging climbing. 1.3 Extend across or be situated on both sides of. 跨越 a mountain range straddling the Franco-Swiss border 一条跨越法国和瑞士边境的山脉。 Example sentencesExamples San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city. Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. The views they have come up with straddle the entire range of options. The appellation Nuits-St-Georges lies both sides of the town which straddles the small river Meuzin and incorporates the vineyards of neighbouring Prémeaux-Prissey to the south. The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern. Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents. The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes. Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria. The company's client base straddles a wide variety of sectors. The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders. Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side. By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality. With a heatwave currently straddling both sides of the Atlantic, isn't it about time we engaged in a little necessary clothes-culling? Her excellent backing band here are adept at straddling the border between folk and rock, and play sensitively throughout, but Denny's vocal talents are best showcased when things are a bit mellower. The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator. The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River. It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. The most loyal fans seem to be those in areas straddling the Tipperary border. We took off towards the magnificent mountains that straddled the Sligo / Leitrim border. Our property straddled the narrow ridge and fell away steeply on both sides. Synonyms lie on both sides of, be situated on both sides of, extend across span 1.4North American Take up or maintain an equivocal position with regard to (a political issue) 〈北美〉对（政治问题）持骑墙态度 a man who had straddled the issue of taxes 一个对税收问题持骑墙态度的人。 Example sentencesExamples Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies? But long ago he blew a chance by straddling the war issue - opposing going to war without a multilateral coalition yet empowering Bush to do so. He straddles issues with as much vigor as most politicians, but nonetheless manages to retain a reputation as a straight talking guy who says what he means and means what he says. The Democrats' leaders in Congress have tried to straddle the issue. Can the Democrats continue to straddle the values issues under those circumstances? This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle. Synonyms be equivocal about, be undecided about, be non-committal about, equivocate about, vacillate about, waver about British hum and haw informal sit on the fence 1.5 Fire at (a target) with shots or bombs so that they fall short of and beyond it. 夹叉射击（目标）；夹叉轰炸（目标） the crew of a plane straddled the submarine with depth charges Example sentencesExamples Antiaircraft fire shells straddled his sitting Kingfisher as Oliver pulled Coumbre and Jacobs aboard. noun ˈstrad(ə)lˈstrædl 1An act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart. 〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐） a sideways-on stance such as a straddle Example sentencesExamples She stretched her legs and arms, and almost fell asleep in her straddle. She positioned herself, unknowingly into a straddle. The hardest part of this trick is getting your hips to start moving upward from the straddle. Over time, mix in the boxer's shuffle and the side straddle. Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle, and you've got to touch your toes. The height of romanticism; there was little else I could do apart from down my drink, suppress a ladylike belch and swing my legs around you in an elegant straddle. 2Stock Market A simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down. 〔股票〕同价买卖（同时以固定价格买卖证券或商品，让买者不论证券或商品的价格是上涨还是下跌都能获利） Example sentencesExamples When they think that the saturation point has been reached, they reverse their position: they replace their existing straddles with the opposite ones. Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations. Derivatives straddler noun She holds the position of a cultural straddler and the conflict between her identities finds its debate within her one-act plays. Example sentencesExamples They are rallying the faithful and reaching out to the fence straddlers in the final push for your vote. People who live together and then want a big traditional wedding are very conspicuous fence straddlers. Fines, a world-class culture straddler, smiles patiently and gives me just what I need, a decision. At least the Democrats have a candidate smart enough to avoid playing into the public's just-forming impression of him as a straddler and positioner. Origin Mid 16th century: alteration of dialect striddle, back-formation from dialect striddling 'astride', from stride + the adverbial suffix -ling. Rhymes addle, paddle, saddle, skedaddle, staddle Definition of straddle in US English: straddle verbˈstradlˈstrædl [with object] 1Sit or stand with one leg on either side of. 骑；跨，跨立于 he turned the chair around and straddled it 他把椅子转过来，然后跨坐在上面。 Example sentencesExamples He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate. He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back. I sat down, straddling the chair opposite the young man before me. David sat across the small room from her, straddling his computer chair, with his arms crossed over the backrest and his head on them. He tossed his books on the table and straddled the chair opposite me. Stand tall with your feet straddling either side of the step, toes forward. I walked into the room and straddled my director's chair. Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts. He cried out and rolled on his side as she straddled him and grabbed the collar of his jacket. Matthew walked away for a second to another table and came back holding a third chair before placing it down backwards on one side of the table, straddling it as he sat down. He smiled at me, turned his chair around and straddled it. But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs. Place the appropriate amount of weight on the bar and straddle it with your feet just a little wider than hip-distance apart. She straddled his chest, keeping him from standing up. Max straddled the bike next to the girl's stand and gave her a wide smile. She straddled the chair and rested her forehead on the back of it. She was an expert horse women with a side saddle but as she had never ridden straddling a horse and she didn't know if she'd be good at it. Her knees straddled his stomach to either side, pinning him beneath her. Alex was lying in the couch while Gabriel straddled one of the chairs by the dining table halfway across the room. I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike. Synonyms sit astride, stand astride, bestride, bestraddle 1.1 Place (one's legs) wide apart. 叉开（双腿） he shifted his legs, straddling them to keep his balance 他移动双腿，叉开来以保持平衡。 Example sentencesExamples As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart. She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck. 1.2archaic no object Stand, walk, or sit with one's legs wide apart. 〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐） Example sentencesExamples He straddled over to the car and gently slid her into the backseat. At points the passage was wide enough to make straddling difficult but eventually we were able to climb up to a drier section and yet more challenging climbing. 1.3 Extend across or be situated on both sides of. 跨越 a mountain range straddling the Franco-Swiss border 一条跨越法国和瑞士边境的山脉。 Example sentencesExamples The appellation Nuits-St-Georges lies both sides of the town which straddles the small river Meuzin and incorporates the vineyards of neighbouring Prémeaux-Prissey to the south. Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents. It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality. The company's client base straddles a wide variety of sectors. The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator. The views they have come up with straddle the entire range of options. The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern. San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city. The most loyal fans seem to be those in areas straddling the Tipperary border. Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side. Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. With a heatwave currently straddling both sides of the Atlantic, isn't it about time we engaged in a little necessary clothes-culling? Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria. The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes. The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River. Our property straddled the narrow ridge and fell away steeply on both sides. Her excellent backing band here are adept at straddling the border between folk and rock, and play sensitively throughout, but Denny's vocal talents are best showcased when things are a bit mellower. The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders. We took off towards the magnificent mountains that straddled the Sligo / Leitrim border. Synonyms lie on both sides of, be situated on both sides of, extend across 1.4North American Take up or maintain an equivocal position with regard to (a political issue) 〈北美〉对（政治问题）持骑墙态度 a man who had straddled the issue of taxes 一个对税收问题持骑墙态度的人。 Example sentencesExamples The Democrats' leaders in Congress have tried to straddle the issue. This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle. He straddles issues with as much vigor as most politicians, but nonetheless manages to retain a reputation as a straight talking guy who says what he means and means what he says. Can the Democrats continue to straddle the values issues under those circumstances? But long ago he blew a chance by straddling the war issue - opposing going to war without a multilateral coalition yet empowering Bush to do so. Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies? Synonyms be equivocal about, be undecided about, be non-committal about, equivocate about, vacillate about, waver about nounˈstradlˈstrædl 1An act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart. 〈古〉分开腿站（走，坐） Example sentencesExamples The hardest part of this trick is getting your hips to start moving upward from the straddle. She positioned herself, unknowingly into a straddle. Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle, and you've got to touch your toes. The height of romanticism; there was little else I could do apart from down my drink, suppress a ladylike belch and swing my legs around you in an elegant straddle. She stretched her legs and arms, and almost fell asleep in her straddle. Over time, mix in the boxer's shuffle and the side straddle. 2Stock Market A simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down. 〔股票〕同价买卖（同时以固定价格买卖证券或商品，让买者不论证券或商品的价格是上涨还是下跌都能获利） Example sentencesExamples Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations. When they think that the saturation point has been reached, they reverse their position: they replace their existing straddles with the opposite ones. Origin Mid 16th century: alteration of dialect striddle, back-formation from dialect striddling ‘astride’, from stride + the adverbial suffix -ling.
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