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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets.
  美国东北部和中部落叶灌木状树，橡子甜而可食，常形成浓密灌丛。
• 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。
• The entire surface is covered with dense thickets.
  所有的地面盖满了密密层层的灌木丛。
• Small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas.
  美国东南部的一种常绿小灌木或乔木；经常形成几乎密不可入的灌木丛。
• Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose-purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California.
  一种多刺的旱生常绿灌木，形成密丛林，花玫瑰紫色、美丽；生长在加利福尼亚干草原上。
• 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。
• If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
  你在平安之地，虽然安稳，在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？