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?

你会说你所在的城市正在蔓延吗？

He seated himself again, sprawling his long legs comfortably.

他又坐下来，称惬意地伸开那两只长腿。

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

我见过在沙漠上绵延的难民营, 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。

Sprawl and loss of focus are another risk.

无计划的扩展和缺乏目标是另一种风险。

Municipal services are failing, too—not least because the city now sprawls over 139 square miles.

城市服务质量也在下降，尤其是在城市扩张了139多平方英里以后。

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

上三早上，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，做着手的琐事。

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

绵延跨越10000公里, 达到了大半个世界。

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

我不想去洛杉矶，或者围的市郊扩展区。

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

其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。

The Forbidden City's sprawling complex of 980 buildings covers an area of over 180 acres and is surrounded by 26-foot tall, 20-foot deep wall as well as a 170 foot wide moat which served as defensive measures throughout history.

紫禁城由980个筑复杂地组成，占地70多公顷（180英亩），被8米高6米深的城墙保护，并且还设置了一条宽为52米的护城河，起到保护作用。

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

又或者你可能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，分布着数百座玛雅筑，其许多尚未发掘。

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.

我们可以逆转这个态势，一起抛弃消耗大量资源的蔓延郊区。

You have these unbelievable new cities in China which you might call tower sprawl.

在国匪夷所思般崛起了各种新城市也可以称为雨后春笋。

A few lichens of the species Usnea melanoxanthra sprawled over the black rocks.

一些单条黑色的苔藓品种丛生，铺在黑色岩石上。

The Hengduan Mountains sprawl 560 miles long and 250 miles wide.

横断山有560英里长，250英里宽。