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

• We crawled into the thicket and hid.
  我们爬进灌木丛，躲了起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Country Mouse was sitting under a hazel thicket plucking nuts.
  乡鼠正坐在榛树丛下摘硬果。
• 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。
• He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant.
  他的帽子落在几步外的乱草中。
• The fox betook herself to the thicket.
  那只孤狸逃进了灌木丛。
• Fat chance I can get a thicket for the concert.
  我很难有机会得到音乐会的票了。
• Dad drove the snake and me down the hill on Seavey Landing Road and stopped the car beside a thicket of evergreens and lilacs.
  爸爸载着我和那条蛇下山上了西维公路，在一片常青树和紫丁香丛旁停下。