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

• There, the water-loving cats use the braided streams and river channels as highways, expertly navigating through the maze of mangrove thickets.
  在这儿，爱水的大猫将发辫似的溪流、道当作路，熟练地在迷宫般的红树林灌木丛内游来游去。
• When the men of Israel saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
  以色列百姓见自己危急窘迫，就藏在山洞，丛林，石穴，隐密处，和坑中。
• Habitat and Ecology: In thickets or thin forests on hillslopes. Flowering: Apr.-Jun.; fruiting: Aug.-Nov.
  生境与生态：生于山坡灌丛和疏林中。花期：4-6月。果期：8-10月。
• Habitat and ecology: growing in thickets, bamboo groves and stone crevices on hill-slopes or near seasides. flowering& fruiting: mar.-sept.
  生境与生态：生于山地和海边灌丛、竹林或石缝中。花、果期：3-9月。
• Deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets.
  美国东北部和中部落叶灌木状树，橡子甜而可食，常形成浓密灌丛。
• Frequently we came upon impassable thickets which forced us to take a roundabout way.
  因此，那些拦住去路的灌木丛常常迫使我们迂回行进。
• Where they stopped, dense thickets of cedars and Ju nipers and birch crowded the roadway on both sides.
  他们停下车。车道两边长满了茂盛的雪松、杜松和白桦树。
• They prefer to live in caves, hollow logs, or dense thickets.
  他们喜欢住在洞里、空心的大木头里或茂密的树丛里。
• 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。