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

• A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.
  丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。
• The fox hid in the thicket where the dogs could not reach it.
  狐狸躲进了狗抓不到它的灌木丛中。
• 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。
• We crawled into the thicket and hid.
  我们爬进灌木丛，躲了起来。
• 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。
• An interposing thicket blocked their way.
  一座插入的灌木丛封锁了他们的道路。
• 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。
• 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。
• This thicket of roses had a variety of colours, such as red, yellow and white.
  这从玫瑰花有各种各样的颜色，比如：红色，黄色和白色。
• An olive-coloured tent stood within a thicket of trees.
  一顶橄榄色帐篷扎在树丛当中。