thicket
thicket 英 [ˈθɪkɪt] 美 [ˈθɪkɪt]
n. [林] 灌木丛；丛林；错综复杂
名词复数:thickets
- A thicket refers to a dense growth of bushes or trees — what you try to avoid by tending to the plants in your backyard.
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- n. [林] 灌木丛；丛林；错综复杂
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1. A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.
丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。
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2. They showed me the hidden things silence revealed: a pheasant craning its neck to spy on us from a thicket, a crow hopping from branch to branch, a raccoon snoring in its den.
他们指给我那些原本隐藏起来、却被寂静暴露了的东西：一头野鸡从灌木丛中伸长脖子打探我们，一只乌鸦在树枝间跳来跳去，一只浣熊在窝里打鼾。
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3. 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。
- thicket (n.) "close-set growth of shrubs, bushes, trees, etc.," late Old English þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et. Absent in Middle English, reappearing early 16c., perhaps a dialectal survival or a re-formation.
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