thickets是什么意思？

thickets

• n. 灌木丛( thicket的名词复数 )，丛状物；

例句

• The entire surface is covered with dense thickets. 所有的地面盖满了密密层层的灌木丛.
• Small trees became thinly scattered among less dense thickets. 小树稀稀朗朗地立在树林里.
• I see conundrums, dilemmas , quandaries , impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. 眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难 、 入困境, 死路一条, 盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路.
• The natural vegetation consisted of evergreen broad - leaved forest ever - green bushland, mangrove thickets and grassland. 该地天然植被有常绿阔叶林 、 丛、树林、坡等.
• ...the thorn and bramble thickets. 荆棘密布的灌木丛
• The delta region of the Rio Grande river was a forsaken land of thickets and swamps. 里奥格兰德河三角洲曾是一片遍布荆棘和沼泽的荒废之地。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  小树丛;灌木丛
  A thicket is a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together.
  例句
  ...a bamboo thicket. 竹丛
• N-COUNT
  乱糟糟的一团(思想、事件)
  If you refer to a thicket of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify.
  例句
  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。 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。