scrubby
音标:
英音/ ˈskrʌbi / 美音/ ˈskrʌbi /
听听基本释意:
外刊例句:
Aerial footage from the aftermath of the Queensland shootings showed what appeared to be smoke still rising from a scrubby area of remote forest, as well as a burned-out police vehicle.
昆士兰枪击事件发生后的航拍画面显示,偏远森林的灌木丛地区似乎仍在冒烟,还有一辆被烧毁的警车。
—New York Times
It is a sprawling area with hundreds of air-conditioned tents used as dormitories and dining halls on scrubby dirt lots, landscape that in some ways resembled parts of the homeland they fled.
这是一个广阔的地区,有数百个空调帐篷,在灌木丛生的泥土地上用作宿舍和餐厅,景观在某些方面类似于他们逃离的家园的一部分。
—Seattle Times
On Tuesday, police crews were seen scouring the deserted white beaches and scrubby bush for signs of Cleo.
周二,人们看到警察在荒芜的白色海滩和灌木丛中搜寻克莱奥的踪迹。
—BBC
基本释意:
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矮小的;树丛繁盛的
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文学例句:
The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge.
灌木丛生的葡萄园和破碎的石头都变得无关紧要,因为如果我愿意,我可以发挥我的想象力,从潮湿、斑驳的树篱上采摘毛地黄和苍白的野营植物。
—Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
We lived on the outskirts of Jackson proper, in a scrubby settlement called Pearl.
我们住在杰克逊郊区一个名叫珍珠的灌木丛生的定居点。
—The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
So now we were walking in the grove behind the college, down by the scrubby little pine forest at the base of the mountains, with one of them on either side of me.
现在我们正走在学院后面的小树林里,沿着山脚下灌木丛生的小松树林,我的两侧各有一棵松树林。
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
词源:
scrubby (adj.)1590s, “stunted, inferior, shabby;” see scrub (n.1) + -y (2). In reference to land, “covered with brush or underwood,” from 1670s. Related: Scrubbiness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
scrapby (adj.)1590 年代,“发育不良、低劣、破旧;”参见擦洗 (n.1) + -y (2)。指 1670 年代“覆盖着灌木丛或林下”的土地。相关:擦洗。相关条目及更多
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