We rail against urban sprawl, and rightly so.

我们反对城市扩张，这点绝对正确。

Do you think you would call your city sprawling?

会说所在的城市正在蔓吗？

The sprawling family today is hardly monolithic.

但我们很难说今天这个庞大的家庭依然还是一个整体。

I have seen refugee camps as big as cities, sprawling in the desert.

我见过在沙漠上绵的难民营, 大得像个城市。

A sprawling 85 mile high-speed railway network.

这是一个长达 85 英里的高速铁路网。

From the top of the Eiffel Tower, Paris sprawls before me.

在埃菲尔铁塔的顶部以尽览巴黎图景。

Sprawl and loss of focus are another risk.

无计划的扩展和缺乏中心目标是另一种风险。

It sprawls across 10,000 kilometers, reaching nearly halfway around the world.

绵跨越10000公里, 达到了大半个世界。

Agricultural sprawl is a far greater ecological threat.

农业的扩张才是更大的生态威胁。

I wouldn't like to go to Los Angeles or the suburban sprawl around that area.

我不想去洛杉矶，或者周围的市郊扩展区。

One devised a massive, underwater globe, constructed around a sprawling city center.

其中一位设计出了一个巨大的水下地球，这是围绕着一个庞大的城市中心建筑开来的。

Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand.

后来我又溜达到海边，仰天躺在沙滩上。

Maybe you were part of sprawling social circles but prefer fewer friends in your thirties.

又或者之前是庞大社交圈的一分子，但在三十几岁时选择和较少的人做朋友。

Hundreds of Maya buildings—many yet to be excavated—sprawl over 3,700 acres of tropical jungle.

在 3700 英亩的热带丛林中，分布着数百座玛雅建筑，其中许多尚未发掘。

It makes sense for businesses to sprawl because the Indian state is still pathetically weak.

尤其是在印度政府势力较弱的情况下，扩大商业规模有一定的道理。

He was immediately cast as Jett Rink and George Stevens as sprawling texan epic Giant.

他立即被选为杰特·林克和乔治·史蒂文斯的庞大的德克萨斯史诗巨人。

On a recent Wednesday morning, GMMES members putter around the club's sprawling lawn doing chores.

上周三早上，格雷芬德海洋与工程模型协会的会员们在俱乐部的草坪上漫步，做着手中的琐事。

This burrowing owl lives in one of the biggest high-tech urban sprawls of North America.

这只穴鴞生活在北美最大的高科技现代都市之一。

We could reverse this trend by getting rid of resource-hungry suburban sprawl altogether.

我们以逆转这个态势，一起抛弃消耗大量资源的蔓郊区。

Back in this country, a sprawling winter storm brought everything from tornadoes to blizzards today.

国内方面，今天，一场肆虐的冬季风暴带来了龙卷风、暴风雪等灾害。