strag·gle /ˈstrægəl/
 (vi.)迷路,落伍,蔓延散亂


 Strag·gle, n. The act of straggling. [R.]

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 Strag·gle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straggled p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling ]
 1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
 2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
    The wolf spied out a straggling kid.   --L'Estrange.
 3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
    Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.   --Mortimer.
 4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. “Straggling pistol shots.”
    They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.   --Sir W. Raleigh.


 straggle
      n : a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons);
          "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"
      v 1: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart,
            digress]
      2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way;
         "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl]