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

• Penned in by whitewashed walls and mandarin groves, visitors find themselves in a feudal labyrinth.
  在白灰墙和桔树林的环绕下，参观者恍若置身于封建王朝的迷宫中。
• They had the head and voice and bristles and body of swine but their minds remained unchanged as before, so they were penned there weeping.
  他们有头和声音和猪鬃和猪的身体，因此他们被圈起来了哭泣。
• 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。
• He penned a letter to the local paper.
  他给当地报纸写了一封信。
• Young men sport white Gandhi caps with "I am Anna" penned onthe sides.
  年轻人头戴侧面写有“我是安纳”字样的甘地式帽子。
• She penned a note of thanks to her hostess.
  她写了一个表示感谢的便笺给女主人。
• The shepherd has penned up the sheep in the four acre field.
  牧羊人把羊群围在那块四英亩的土地上。
• She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
  她觉得做家庭主妇很受束缚。
• 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。
• I penned a few lines to him.
  我略写几行给他。