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bough

/bou/US // baʊ //UK // (baʊ) //

枝桠,灌木丛,桠桠,枝条

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.

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Examples

  • There are many different ways to make snowshoes, and the crudest and quickest method is to strap a bundle of evergreen boughs underneath each foot—though it’s a cumbersome task that does little to improve traction.

  • To make a bough bed, you can use leaves, grass, evergreen boughs, or other plant material for insulation.

  • Add a bough bedWhile this is not a shelter by itself, a thick bough bed makes an outstanding addition to any type of shelter large enough to accommodate it.

  • Since a fire would melt the snow covered boughs overhead, your best bet for warmth is packing the well with insulating materials.

  • In the event the snow won’t hold together to build solid building blocks or you are caught without tools, you can still dig out a trench and cover it with a flat roof of poles, tree boughs, and an insulating layer of snow.

  • A couple of innocuous paragraphs are all that appeared in the privately printed book, The Fruitful Bough.

  • No man should regard the subject of religion as decided for him until he has read The Golden Bough.

  • Outside Rome, showing the same ideas at work among neighbouring peoples, was the 'golden bough' in the grove of Diana at Aricia.

  • A few more shots put an end to its existence, and we then pulled up under the bough on which it was hanging.

  • Wandering from the parent bough,Little, trembling leaf,Whither goest thou?

  • The birds were singing, black squirrels were jumping from bough to bough, and they could hear the tapping of the woodpecker.