copse
copse 英 [kɒps] 美 [kɑps]
n. 杂树林；小灌木丛
名词复数:copses
- A copse is a thicket of bushes or a small stand of trees. A copse of trees can provide a good hiding place during a game of hide-and-seek.
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- n. 杂树林；小灌木丛
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1. The voices were coming from a copse of straggly trees.
声音从一片稀稀拉拉的杂树林中传来。
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2. They proceeded in silence along the gravel walk that led to the copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and disagreeable.
两人默默无声地沿着一条通到小树林的鹅卵石铺道往前走。 伊丽莎白只觉得这个老妇人比往常更傲慢，更其令人讨厌，因此拿定主张，决不先开口跟她说话。
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3. But the only rebel vehicles in sight were fleeing the scene and we weren’t close enough to get in, so we ran deeper into the desert to take cover in a small copse of trees.
但是我们视线范围内的反对派车辆都在逃离这里，太远了，我们没法上车，于是便向沙漠更深处跑去，找了一小片树丛当掩护。
- copse (n.) 1570s, "small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting," contraction of coppice.
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