thicket

英 [ˈθɪkɪt]

美 [ˈθɪkɪt]

n. 灌木丛; 树丛; 错综复杂; 盘根错节

复数：thickets　

GRE TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.15392 / COCA.11043

牛津词典

noun

灌木丛；树丛
a group of bushes or small trees growing closely together
错综复杂；盘根错节
a large number of things that are not easy to understand or separate

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。

英英释义

noun

a dense growth of bushes
Synonym:brushbrushwoodcoppicecopse

双语例句

Dad drove the snake and me down the hill on Seavey Landing Road and stopped the car beside a thicket of evergreens and lilacs.
爸爸载着我和那条蛇下山上了西维公路，在一片常青树和紫丁香丛旁停下。
The Country Mouse was sitting under a hazel thicket plucking nuts.
乡鼠正坐在榛树丛下摘硬果。
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。
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。
An olive-coloured tent stood within a thicket of trees.
一顶橄榄色帐篷扎在树丛当中。
He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant.
他的帽子落在几步外的乱草中。
This thicket of roses had a variety of colours, such as red, yellow and white.
这从玫瑰花有各种各样的颜色，比如：红色，黄色和白色。
One day he was fishing with another boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicket.
有一天他正和另一个男孩在那边钓鱼，突然从灌木丛里窜出一个看守。
Just as he reached the center of the thicket the dried twigs cracked again.
刚到了树丛深处，枯枝折裂声又响起。
I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
我也必毁坏她的葡萄树，和无花果树，就是她说，这是我所爱的给我为赏赐的，我必使这些树变为荒林，为田野的走兽所吃。