Thicket

(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

编辑:朱尔斯

• Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Tell me, if you see the thicket move firSt. 'Nay, I would have you lead. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread themselves above the island-dotted waters. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But yonder thicket is a choice chapel for the Clerks of Saint Nicholas. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The buried forest and thickets were not all changed into coal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I hovered for ever around the walls of its Castle, beneath its enshadowing thickets; my sole companions were my books and my loving thoughts. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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