no obj., usu. with adverbial of direction
1- move along slowly, typically in a small irregular group, so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front掉队, 落伍：
half the men were already straggling back into the building
有一半的人已经拉在后面退回楼里去了
as adj. straggling the straggling crowd of refugees.稀稀拉拉落在后面的一群难民。
1.1
- grow, spread, or be laid out in an irregular, untidy way蔓生; 四散; 散落：
her hair was straggling over her eyes.
她的头发凌乱地搭盖在双眼上。
- an untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group of something散乱的一群; 不规则排列的事物：
a straggle of cottages.
零零落落的小屋。
派生词
straggler
nounstraggly
adjective词源
late Middle English: perhaps from dialect strake 'go'.