underbrush
underbrush 英 ['ʌndəbrʌʃ] 美 ['ʌndɚbrʌʃ]
n. 林下灌木丛；矮树丛
名词复数:underbrushes
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- n. 林下灌木丛；矮树丛
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1. The wild boar crept into the underbrush and the wolf jumped up a tree.
说完，野猪急急忙忙地藏进了灌木丛里，狼跳到一棵大树上。
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2. Experts say measures taken to stop fires can end up causing more devastating ones by allowing the growth of small trees and underbrush, “ladder fuels” that ignite bigger trees.
专家说为防止火灾所采取的措施可以避免毁灭性灾难，因为如果允许小树和灌木肆意生长，形成的“阶梯燃料”会点燃更大的树。
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3. A sweet mushroomy smell, gnomes stationed in the underbrush, the sound of a mandolin far up on the hill.
周围传来香甜的蘑菇味，小矮人们在灌木丛里，远山传来的曼陀林的音乐。
- underbrush (n.) "shrub and small trees in a forest," 1775, from under + brush (n.2). Originally American English; compare undergrowth, attested in the same sense from 1600.
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