| 单词 | straddle |
| 释义 | straddle (once / 4155 pages) vn When you straddle something, you're sitting on it with one leg on each side — like straddling a horse or a fence. Unless you're using an old-fashioned side saddle, you straddle a horse when you ride it. Gymnasts learn how to straddle the parallel bars, basically doing the splits on them. But if someone says you're "straddling the fence", it means you're doing a different kind of splits: you're not taking a side and refusing to commit. In finance, straddling means you want to leave your options open to buy or sell. WORD FAMILYstraddle: straddled, straddles, straddling USAGE EXAMPLESMany Strain-Japan families straddle their time between working jobs close to St. Louis and tending to family farms. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) They straddle the boundaries of the public and private, the respectable and the reviled. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) My children attend a school and play soccer on fields that straddle it. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) 1v sit or stand astride of Hyper be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 2v range or extend over; occupy a certain area The plants straddle the entire state Syn|Hypo|Hyper range spread-eagle stretch over be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent form or compose 3v be noncommittal 4n the act of sitting or standing astride Syn|Hyper span motility, motion, move, movement a change of position that does not entail a change of location 5n a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars Hyper gymnastic exercise (gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus) 6n a noncommittal or equivocal position Hyper perspective, position, view a way of regarding situations or topics etc. 7n the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options Hyper option the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited |
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