(noun.) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); 'a straggle of outbuildings'; 'a straggle of followers'.
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双语例句
Don't straggle, my man. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Now, whenever he left the camp he was sure to bring home game, while the other men would straggle back for the most part empty-handed. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
Although Sheridan had been marching all day, his troops moved with alacrity and without any straggling. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out! 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
And what's this straggling about in an idle sort of a way? 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Straggling had entirely ceased, and every man was now a rival for the front. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Shoals of our straggling youth have been swept into the ocean by an unexpected breeze! 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Men went, but only kings and nobles straggled back; and that often only after heavy taxation for a ransom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The few of his followers who have returned have straggled hither like this Wilfred of Ivanhoe, beggared and broken men. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.