straddle

1. V-T If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it. 跨坐

He looked at her with a grin and sat down, straddling the chair. 他咧嘴笑著看她，然后跨坐在那把椅子上。

2. V-T If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it. 橫跨

A small wooden bridge straddled the dike. 一座小木橋橫跨那個(gè)排水渠。

3. V-T Someone or something that straddles different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all. 跨越 (不同時(shí)期、群體或領(lǐng)域)

He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in the United States and later converted to Islam. 他跨越兩種文化，從小在美國(guó)受教育，后來又改信伊斯蘭教。