thickets

英 [ˈθɪkɪts]

美 [ˈθɪkəts]

n.  灌木丛; 树丛; 错综复杂; 盘根错节
thicket的复数

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。

双语例句

• The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
  各城的人因马兵和弓箭手的响声就都逃跑，进入密林，爬上磐石。各城被撇下，无人住在其中。
• Then the fairy flew away and she surrounded the castle with thickets of bushes. The thickets were so thick that the palace was completely protected.
  然后仙女飞走，并将城堡用茂密的树篱包围起来。树篱相当茂密，因此整座宫殿完全都被保护起来。
• He whistled gaily when he approached the thick wall of thickets and forest surrounding the castle.
  当他接近城堡周围的茂密树篱和森林时，他快乐地吹着口哨。
• Habitat and Ecology: In thickets or thin forests on hillslopes. Flowering: Apr.-Jun.; fruiting: Aug.-Nov.
  生境与生态：生于山坡灌丛和疏林中。花期：4-6月。果期：8-10月。
• There, the water-loving cats use the braided streams and river channels as highways, expertly navigating through the maze of mangrove thickets.
  在这儿，爱水的大猫将发辫似的溪流、道当作路，熟练地在迷宫般的红树林灌木丛内游来游去。
• Every day I come and go amid these weeds and thickets and fly freely.
  我每天在这些杂草和树丛里，来来去去，自由飞翔，不也飞得挺好吗？
• When the men of Israel saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
  以色列百姓见自己危急窘迫，就藏在山洞，丛林，石穴，隐密处，和坑中。
• The next day we hiked with snowshoes and trekking poles for three hours on Temenos trails& up steep rises and along ridges and through thickets of oak and birch trees.
  第二天，装备齐全了雪靴和登山杆，我们开始了三小时的脱门诺远足之旅。小路在桦树橡树丛林中蜿蜒攀升。
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• Trees I would have none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet-briar and honeysuckle, and some wild vine amongst; and the ground set with violets, strawberries, and primroses.
  在其中我以为决不应当有任何树木，除了几丛野蔷薇和忍冬，其间再杂以野葡萄之类的植物；地上则多植香堇，杨莓和樱草。