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。
• The Country Mouse was sitting under a hazel thicket plucking nuts.
  乡鼠正坐在榛树丛下摘硬果。
• 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 Parsee jumped to the ground, fastened the elephant to a tree, and plunged into the thicket.
  帕西人跳下象来，把象拴在树干上，钻入那茂密的灌木丛里。
• The laughing trio was shocked into silence when Cenarius stepped out of a shadowed thicket.
  塞纳留斯从灌木丛的阴影处走出时，正在开心交谈的三人被震慑住并且沉默了。
• They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.
  他们好像人扬起斧子，砍伐林中的树。
• The fox betook herself to the thicket.
  那只孤狸逃进了灌木丛。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。