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，然後跨坐在那把椅子上。

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 (不同時期、群躰或領域)

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