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

• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Conifer forests ( Abies-Tsuga) and bamboo thickets on steep slopes; 2900 – 3200 m.W Yunnan.
  在陡坡上的松柏类植物森林和竹子灌丛；2900-3200米云南西部。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。