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

• 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。
• Trees I would have none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet-briar and honeysuckle, and some wild vine amongst; and the ground set with violets, strawberries, and primroses.
  在其中我以为决不应当有任何树木，除了几丛野蔷薇和忍冬，其间再杂以野葡萄之类的植物；地上则多植香堇，杨莓和樱草。
• Then the fairy flew away and she surrounded the castle with thickets of bushes. The thickets were so thick that the palace was completely protected.
  然后仙女飞走，并将城堡用茂密的树篱包围起来。树篱相当茂密，因此整座宫殿完全都被保护起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
  你在平安之地，虽然安稳，在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？
• The alerted mama Canada goose sits in the thickets.
  大雁妈妈戒慎小心在草丛中抱蛋。
• Lost in the thickets of irollan, sylina is a druid town.
  深藏于艾罗兰树丛之中的希里纳是一个德鲁伊城。
• 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。
• 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。