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

• Where they stopped, dense thickets of cedars and Ju nipers and birch crowded the roadway on both sides.
  他们停下车。车道两边长满了茂盛的雪松、杜松和白桦树。
• Then the fairy flew away and she surrounded the castle with thickets of bushes. The thickets were so thick that the palace was completely protected.
  然后仙女飞走，并将城堡用茂密的树篱包围起来。树篱相当茂密，因此整座宫殿完全都被保护起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Alan began to search again, this time through the tangled thickets of what might have been a herb garden.
  阿兰又开始找起来。这一次通过杂草丛生的灌木丛。
• If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
  你在平安之地，虽然安稳，在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？
• 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。
• Every day I come and go amid these weeds and thickets and fly freely.
  我每天在这些杂草和树丛里，来来去去，自由飞翔，不也飞得挺好吗？