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

• 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。
• And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket.
  鸟儿也会在榛树上筑巢。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We crawled into the thicket and hid.
  我们爬进灌木丛，躲了起来。
• An interposing thicket blocked their way.
  一座插入的灌木丛封锁了他们的道路。
• 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。
• An olive-coloured tent stood within a thicket of trees.
  一顶橄榄色帐篷扎在树丛当中。