thicket

英 [ˈθɪkɪt]

美 [ˈθɪkɪt]

n.  灌木丛; 树丛; 错综复杂; 盘根错节

复数：thickets　

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.15392 / COCA.11043

牛津词典

noun

• 灌木丛；树丛
  a group of bushes or small trees growing closely together
• 错综复杂；盘根错节
  a large number of things that are not easy to understand or separate

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小树丛;灌木丛
  Athicketis a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together.
  1. ...a bamboo thicket.
     竹丛
• N-COUNT 乱糟糟的一团(思想、事件)
  If you refer to athicket ofideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify.
  1. The novel is a thicket of literary references...
     这本小说纯粹是由一堆文学参考书胡乱拼凑而成。
  2. To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations from which few emerge.
     要开一家外资企业就要钻条条框框，没几个出来的。

英英释义

noun

• a dense growth of bushes
  Synonym:brushbrushwoodcoppicecopse

双语例句

• I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
  我也必毁坏她的葡萄树，和无花果树，就是她说，这是我所爱的给我为赏赐的，我必使这些树变为荒林，为田野的走兽所吃。
• The novel is a thicket of literary references
  这本小说纯粹是由一堆文学参考书胡乱拼凑而成。
• One day he was fishing with another boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicket.
  有一天他正和另一个男孩在那边钓鱼，突然从灌木丛里窜出一个看守。
• We crawled into the thicket and hid.
  我们爬进灌木丛，躲了起来。
• This thicket of roses had a variety of colours, such as red, yellow and white.
  这从玫瑰花有各种各样的颜色，比如：红色，黄色和白色。
• A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.
  丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。
• And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket.
  鸟儿也会在榛树上筑巢。
• The laughing trio was shocked into silence when Cenarius stepped out of a shadowed thicket.
  塞纳留斯从灌木丛的阴影处走出时，正在开心交谈的三人被震慑住并且沉默了。
• The crowing of cock pheasants from the thicket beside the old road warned me that I was on preserved grounds.
  在小道附近的丛林中间，雄雉的啼叫声警告我，我已进入了禁猎区。
• Abraham looked up, and there he saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket.
  亚伯拉罕抬头一看，他见到一头公羊，双角缠在灌木丛中。