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

• She penned a few words of thanks.
  她写了几句致谢的话。
• I penned a few lines to him.
  我略写几行给他。
• An unnamed writer from The Daily Show penned some of his jokes.
  一位《每日秀》的匿名作家记录了当晚奥巴马讲的一些笑话。
• The professor may not know that he has many phantom colleagues who have penned Chinese best-sellers.
  这位教授可能不知道，他有许多虚幻的同事写的书是中国畅销书。
• 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。
• When all the cattle were safely penned up, the farmer could stop work for the day.
  当所有的牛都安全地关进了栏中，这农民就可以结束了一天的工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。