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

• Shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets.
  美国东南部的一种常绿灌木栎，通常形成密灌丛。
• 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。
• Where they stopped, dense thickets of cedars and Ju nipers and birch crowded the roadway on both sides.
  他们停下车。车道两边长满了茂盛的雪松、杜松和白桦树。
• The alerted mama Canada goose sits in the thickets.
  大雁妈妈戒慎小心在草丛中抱蛋。
• In front of the wain, in the mid-ground, are thickets and a small hut under the sun.
  大车的前方是为阳光所照射着的树丛和茅屋，它们构成了这幅画的中景；
• 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。
• 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 entire surface is covered with dense thickets.
  所有的地面盖满了密密层层的灌木丛。
• The Painted Bunting is found in thickets, woodland edges and brushy areas, along roadsides, in suburban areas, and gardens.
  该帕因特德邦廷被发现在灌木丛，林地边，路旁布拉希地区，郊区，和花园。