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

• Frequently we came upon impassable thickets which forced us to take a roundabout way.
  因此，那些拦住去路的灌木丛常常迫使我们迂回行进。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Conifer forests ( Abies-Tsuga) and bamboo thickets on steep slopes; 2900 – 3200 m.W Yunnan.
  在陡坡上的松柏类植物森林和竹子灌丛；2900-3200米云南西部。
• 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。
• Alan began to search again, this time through the tangled thickets of what might have been a herb garden.
  阿兰又开始找起来。这一次通过杂草丛生的灌木丛。
• 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？