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

• 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。
• Fat chance I can get a thicket for the concert.
  我很难有机会得到音乐会的票了。
• They showed me the hidden things silence revealed: a pheasant craning its neck to spy on us from a thicket, a crow hopping from branch to branch, a raccoon snoring in its den.
  他们指给我那些原本隐藏起来、却被寂静暴露了的东西：一头野鸡从灌木丛中伸长脖子打探我们，一只乌鸦在树枝间跳来跳去，一只浣熊在窝里打鼾。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The crowing of cock pheasants from the thicket beside the old road warned me that I was on preserved grounds.
  在小道附近的丛林中间，雄雉的啼叫声警告我，我已进入了禁猎区。