asprawlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ sprawl

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈspɹɔːl/
• 韻: -ɔːl

形容詞

asprawl (not comparable)

1. Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
   • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129,^[1]

     […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.

   • 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 1, p. 24,^[2]

     […] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,

   • 1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86,^[3]

     a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces

   • 2005, John Banville, The Sea, London: Picador, Part 1, p. 113,^[4]

     […] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,

前置詞

asprawl

1. Sprawling over or across.
   • 1914, Larry Evans, Once to Every Man, New York: H. K. Fly, Chapter 11, pp. 151-152,^[5]

     All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,

   • 1947, James Barke, The Song in the Green Thorn Tree, London: Collins, Part 1, p. 78,^[6]

     Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.

   • 1977, Ewan Clarkson, The Badgers of Summercombe, New York: Dutton, Chapter 3, p. 18,^[7]

     From a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,

   • 1994, Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, p. 147,^[8]

     […] she thought that not for anything would she wish him to see her naked thus, naked and cut, asprawl a windowsill.

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