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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lost in the thickets of irollan, sylina is a druid town.
  深藏于艾罗兰树丛之中的希里纳是一个德鲁伊城。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。