straggle
straggle
verb
straggler
noun
straggly
( stragglier, straggliest)
adjective(stragglier, straggliest)
语源
verb
- [no obj., usu. with adverbial of direction]move along slowly, typically in a small irregular group, so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front
掉队，落伍
half the men were already straggling back into the building.
有一半的人已经拉在后面退回楼里去了。
[as adj. straggling]the straggling crowd of refugees.
稀稀拉拉的一群难民。
■grow, spread, or be laid out in an irregular, untidy way
蔓生；四散；散落
her hair was straggling over her eyes.
她的头发凌乱地搭盖在双眼上。
- an untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group of something
散乱的一群；不规则排列的事物
a straggle of cottages.
零零落落的小屋。
straggler
noun
straggly
( stragglier, straggliest)
adjective(stragglier, straggliest)
语源
- late Middle English: perhaps from dialect strake 'go'
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