brushwood

英 [ˈbrʌʃwʊd]

美 [ˈbrʌʃwʊd]

n.  (常指当柴火用的)断树枝，枯树枝

BNC.34816 / COCA.42597

牛津词典

noun

• （常指当柴火用的）断树枝，枯树枝
  small broken or dead branches of trees, often used to make fires

柯林斯词典

• 断树枝；枯树枝
  Brushwoodconsists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.

英英释义

noun

• a dense growth of bushes
  Synonym:brushcoppicecopsethicket
• the wood from bushes or small branches
  1. they built a fire of brushwood

双语例句

• It is akin to allowing occasional small forest fires to clear the brushwood, rather than extinguishing them and risking a huge conflagration.
  这类似于让偶然爆发的小规模森林火灾烧掉那些低矮的灌木丛，而不是将其扑灭，并甘冒酿成大火的风险。
• Slowly now it floated among logs and brushwood and over the flooded land.
  这时它缓缓地在树干和矮树间漂浮着，又浮到被洪水淹没的陆地上。
• They sleep on brushwood and taste gall.
  他们卧薪尝胆。
• Inside the barren house, piles of brushwood, litter and building materials lie strewn about.
  在这栋荒凉的房子内部，枯树枝、垃圾和建筑材料堆得到处都是。
• This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the brushwood until it reached Jean valjean.
  可是这一次他那个值四十苏的钱落了空，向那丛荆棘了去，滚到了冉阿让的脚边。
• Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and pick.
  两三个钟头过后，蒲辣秃柳儿看见他那老相知又从树丛里出来，可是他现在掮的不是那只小箱，而是一把镐和一把锹。
• They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
  在草丛之中采咸草，罗腾（小树名，松类）的根为他们的食物。
• Most of the aggregative birds were habitat in brushwood, however, 60% birds were not aggregative.
  集群鸟类大都生活在草灌丛，不集群的鸟类占总种数的60%。
• You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat grass like the beasts of the forest.
  你将在草莽中爬着走，你将象树林中的野人一样吃草。
• There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles.
  山顶有久已废弃的墓园，各条小径灌木丛生，还有成排成排的空白墓碑。