penned

英 [pend]

美 [pend]

v.  写; (把…)关起来，圈起来
pen的过去分词和过去式

过去式：penned　

COCA.41989

柯林斯词典

• See also:fountain pen
• VERB 写；书写
  If someonepensa letter, article, or book, they write it.
  1. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning...
     我真的打算今天一大早给你写这封信的。
  2. She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
     她给他的私人秘书写了一份简短的备忘录。
• See also:...a holding pen for sheep...He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.playpen
• VERB 把…关起来；把…圈起来
  If people or animalsare pennedsomewhere orare penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
  1. ...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
     将牛群赶回家，这样就能挤奶并将其关进牛棚过夜
  2. The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day...
     山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
  3. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
     我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
• 监狱
  People sometimes saythe pento refer to a prison.
• PHRASE 动笔；下笔
  If youput pen to paper, you write something.
  1. Whenever he put pen to paper he was at a loss for the right words to break the news.
     他每次一提笔就不知道如何措辞透露这个消息。

双语例句

• An unnamed writer from The Daily Show penned some of his jokes.
  一位《每日秀》的匿名作家记录了当晚奥巴马讲的一些笑话。
• Parents have received angry letters penned in staffrooms and handed to children.
  家长们收到了教师在办公室里起草，交给孩子带回家的愤怒信件。
• The professor may not know that he has many phantom colleagues who have penned Chinese best-sellers.
  这位教授可能不知道，他有许多虚幻的同事写的书是中国畅销书。
• When all the cattle were safely penned up, the farmer could stop work for the day.
  当所有的牛都安全地关进了栏中，这农民就可以结束了一天的工作。
• Before she left she penned up both dogs in the back yard.
  离开之前，她把两只狗都关在后院里。
• The convalescent child penned up in the house was yearning to go out and play with his brothers.
  那个关在屋里养病的孩子渴望出去与兄弟一起玩耍。
• Unused to living in so small a house, she felt penned up.
  不习惯于住在那麽小的房子里，她感到了拘束。
• I penned a few lines to him.
  我略写几行给他。
• Johnnie Boden penned a letter that went out to selected customers last week who had stopped buying from him.
  约翰尼•波登最近写了一封信，有选择地发给一些顾客：他们都是已经停止向其购物的人。
• I had penned the chorus to a song that was eventually included in his fifth album Revolution.
  我写了这首歌的合唱部分，最后这歌收入了他的第五张专辑“公转自转”。