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

• 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。
• Mosq-ovitraps were set under the trees, flowers or brushwood in the field for2,3,4 and7days, for temporal analysis;
  将诱蚊诱卵器按野外监测方法布放，并分别在布放的第2、3、4和7天检查诱蚊诱卵阳性数；
• They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
  在草丛中叫唤，在荆棘下聚集。
• Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood.
  一种与印度榕树相似的澳洲榕，通常栽培供观赏，；已引种至非洲南部作薪柴。
• 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。
• A dog barks at the brushwood gate,| as someone heads home this windy, snowy night.
  柴门闻犬吠，风雪夜归人。（刘长卿《逢雪宿芙蓉山主人》）
• Your servant's heart is revealed in little acts that others don't think of doing, as when Paul gathered brushwood for a fire to warm everyone after a shipwreck.
  仆人的心志常在没有人想做的小事上显明出来。正如保罗在沉船后去拾柴生火，让众人取暖。
• 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。
• Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you?
  你曾否穿越树丛，为跟在你后面走来的姣好的头分开枝叶呢？
• 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。