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thicket

/thik-it/US // ˈθɪk ɪt //UK // (ˈθɪkɪt) //

丛丛,灌丛,灌木丛,丛林

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

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Examples

  • Head back into those lodgepole thickets and you’ll come to a clearing where a giant looms.

  • They drive about a mile and park the bus in a bamboo thicket.

  • You can harness the wind and waves along the Gulf of Mexico, paddle through canyons, thickets, and pristine backcountry, or leap from granite cliffs into a crisp Hill Country lake.

  • Both parties hoped the mutual engagement of civil rights organizations, police groups, and key lawmakers could steer the talks though the political thicket that emerged after Floyd’s death.

  • To get to the Burger King location where I sampled the chain’s new, upgraded chicken sandwich, I traversed a veritable thicket of chicken-y goodness.

  • The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket.

  • Just so with Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity seems increasingly lost in a cyber thicket that no one can penetrate.

  • After a while, as we were arguing about the Thicket, it occurred to us that all in the house save Arch and me had gone to bed.

  • Sports Illustrated sent Shrake down at his insistence to do a piece on the beautiful and haunting Big Thicket area of East Texas.

  • Biologists view the Big Thicket with profound wonder, and ecologists regard its passing with despair.

  • We got off our horses and stooped over the man, forgetting for the moment that danger might lurk in the surrounding thicket.

  • No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.

  • A girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.

  • The eyes of the huge brute opened instantly, and he had half risen before the loud report of the gun rang through the thicket.

  • And out of this thicket, alas, no two people ever emerge hand in hand in concord.