thickets

英 [ˈθɪkɪts]

美 [ˈθɪkəts]

n.  灌木丛; 树丛; 错综复杂; 盘根错节
thicket的复数

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。

双语例句

• Closed-doorism just "drives the fish into deep waters and the sparrows into the thickets", and it will drive the millions upon millions of the masses, this mighty army, over to the enemy's side, which will certainly win his acclaim.
  关门主义“为渊驱鱼，为丛驱雀”，把“千千万万”和“浩浩荡荡”都赶到敌人那一边去，只博得敌人的喝采。
• There, the water-loving cats use the braided streams and river channels as highways, expertly navigating through the maze of mangrove thickets.
  在这儿，爱水的大猫将发辫似的溪流、道当作路，熟练地在迷宫般的红树林灌木丛内游来游去。
• The next day we hiked with snowshoes and trekking poles for three hours on Temenos trails& up steep rises and along ridges and through thickets of oak and birch trees.
  第二天，装备齐全了雪靴和登山杆，我们开始了三小时的脱门诺远足之旅。小路在桦树橡树丛林中蜿蜒攀升。
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• Deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets.
  美国东北部和中部落叶灌木状树，橡子甜而可食，常形成浓密灌丛。
• When the men of Israel saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
  以色列百姓见自己危急窘迫，就藏在山洞，丛林，石穴，隐密处，和坑中。
• Conifer forests ( Abies-Tsuga) and bamboo thickets on steep slopes; 2900 – 3200 m.W Yunnan.
  在陡坡上的松柏类植物森林和竹子灌丛；2900-3200米云南西部。
• Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose-purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California.
  一种多刺的旱生常绿灌木，形成密丛林，花玫瑰紫色、美丽；生长在加利福尼亚干草原上。
• The delta region of the Rio Grande river was a forsaken land of thickets and swamps.
  里奥格兰德河三角洲曾是一片遍布荆棘和沼泽的荒废之地。
• Frequently we came upon impassable thickets which forced us to take a roundabout way.
  因此，那些拦住去路的灌木丛常常迫使我们迂回行进。