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

• Parents have received angry letters penned in staffrooms and handed to children.
  家长们收到了教师在办公室里起草，交给孩子带回家的愤怒信件。
• 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。
• The whole family were penned up in one room for a month.
  整个一家人在一间房间被关了一个月。
• There our childhood had been penned up by an honest old dame.
  在那里，那诚实的老妇人曾关闭着我们的童年时代。
• 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。
• I recently penned a piece for forensic Asia called accounting Wars: Transnational regulation in China.
  最近，我为ForensicAsia撰写了一篇题为《会计战：中国的跨国法规》（AccountingWars：TransnationalRegulationinChina）的文章。
• 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。
• 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。
• He penned a letter to the local paper.
  他给当地报纸写了一封信。
• She penned a few words of thanks.
  她写了几句致谢的话。