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

• Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished into childhood's thicket?
  我猜，她找到的可能是他幼年在灌木丛中玩耍时弄丢的小皮球。
• An olive-coloured tent stood within a thicket of trees.
  一顶橄榄色帐篷扎在树丛当中。
• Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are destroyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
  听阿、有牧人哀号的声音、因他们荣华的草场毁坏了。有少壮狮子咆哮的声音、因约但河旁的丛林荒废了。
• And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket.
  鸟儿也会在榛树上筑巢。
• The Country Mouse was sitting under a hazel thicket plucking nuts.
  乡鼠正坐在榛树丛下摘硬果。
• They showed me the hidden things silence revealed: a pheasant craning its neck to spy on us from a thicket, a crow hopping from branch to branch, a raccoon snoring in its den.
  他们指给我那些原本隐藏起来、却被寂静暴露了的东西：一头野鸡从灌木丛中伸长脖子打探我们，一只乌鸦在树枝间跳来跳去，一只浣熊在窝里打鼾。
• This thicket of roses was always happy until one day the White Rose did something strange.
  这从玫瑰一直很快乐，直到白玫瑰做出了一些奇怪的事情。
• 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。
• The sweeping steps create a thicket of issues, most pressingly whether the banks will step up lending.
  这些力度颇大的举措带来了一系列问题，最关键的一个就是银行是否会增加放贷。
• 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。