urban sprawl
collocation城市无序扩张
Urban sprawl has swallowed up the farmland around the city.
城市无序扩张吞没了城市周边的农田。
（城市）无序扩张；杂乱延伸
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（城市）无序扩张；杂乱延伸
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
The sprawl of new housing has spread across the edge of town.
新建住房的无序扩张已经蔓延到城镇边缘。
笨拙的摊开姿势
An ungainly sprawling posture.
杂乱无章的扩展,尤指城市边缘的住房扩展
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
一种防御技术,回应某些摔跤尝试时将腿向后移以压在对手上背部
A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
Residents complain about the endless sprawl of shopping centers along the highway.
居民们抱怨公路沿线购物中心无休止的杂乱延伸。
We walked through the urban sprawl for hours before reaching the park.
我们穿过城市无序扩张的区域走了几个小时才到达公园。
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城市无序扩张
Urban sprawl has swallowed up the farmland around the city.
城市无序扩张吞没了城市周边的农田。
郊区无序扩展
Suburban sprawl has made long commutes increasingly common.
郊区无序扩展使长途通勤变得越来越普遍。
不受控制的扩张
Unchecked sprawl often leads to traffic congestion and pollution.
不受控制的扩张常常导致交通拥堵和污染。
四仰八叉地（躺着）
He fell and lay in a sprawl on the pavement.
他摔倒后四仰八叉地躺在人行道上。
城市无序扩张；城市蔓延
Many people worry that urban sprawl will destroy the surrounding countryside.
许多人担心城市无序扩张会破坏周边的乡村。
出自 Arcade Fire 的歌曲《Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)》，感叹城市无序扩张让人无处可逃。
The song captures how suburban sprawl can make people feel trapped.
这首歌捕捉了郊区无序扩张如何让人感到被困其中。
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联想：sprawl 像 spread（铺开）+ crawl（爬），城市如虫子乱爬般无序扩张，人也懒散摊开四肢。
语域：mixed 常见场景：urban planning discussions、casual descriptions of posture、wrestling and martial arts “sprawl”作名词时因义项不同，语域有差异：指城市或建筑无序扩展时，多用于书面语和正式场合；指笨拙摊开的姿势时，日常口语中比较常见；摔跤等体育语境中则属于专门术语。
可数名词，表示伸开手足躺卧的姿势
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