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

• Fat chance I can get a thicket for the concert.
  我很难有机会得到音乐会的票了。
• I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
  我也必毁坏她的葡萄树，和无花果树，就是她说，这是我所爱的给我为赏赐的，我必使这些树变为荒林，为田野的走兽所吃。
• 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。
• Just as he reached the center of the thicket the dried twigs cracked again.
  刚到了树丛深处，枯枝折裂声又响起。
• Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are destroyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
  听阿、有牧人哀号的声音、因他们荣华的草场毁坏了。有少壮狮子咆哮的声音、因约但河旁的丛林荒废了。
• 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。
• Owl Wing Thicket Digsite.
  枭翼树丛挖掘场。
• Abraham looked up, and there he saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket.
  亚伯拉罕抬头一看，他见到一头公羊，双角缠在灌木丛中。
• 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。
• You herd all the burros in that thicket there.
  你把所有的驴子放到那边的灌木丛中。