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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The fox betook herself to the thicket.
  那只孤狸逃进了灌木丛。
• 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。
• An interposing thicket blocked their way.
  一座插入的灌木丛封锁了他们的道路。
• And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket.
  鸟儿也会在榛树上筑巢。
• One day he was fishing with another boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicket.
  有一天他正和另一个男孩在那边钓鱼，突然从灌木丛里窜出一个看守。
• A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.
  丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。