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小词详解 | thicket
thicket 英 [ˈθɪkɪt] 美 [ˈθɪkɪt]
Tradable services—in finance, or information industries—are subject to thickets of domestic regulation.
金融或信息产业可交易的服务受制于错综复杂的国内法规。
——《经济学人》For those more curious than martial, one useful path through this thicket is to look at areas where extremists and eccentrics from very different worlds are talking about the same subject.
对于那些好奇多于好斗的人来说,要弄清这种错综复杂的情况,有一条有效途径是看看那些来自不同世界的极端分子和怪人谈论同一个话题的方式。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 茂密的灌木丛或树丛
丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。
A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.狐狸隐藏在灌木丛中,那里狗捉不到它。
The fox hid in the thicket where the dogs could not reach it.
这本平淡无奇的小说纯粹是由一堆文学参考书胡乱拼凑而成。
This banal novel is a thicket of literary references.一大堆错综复杂的外交政策问题把摇摇欲坠的政府困住了。
A thicket of foreign policy problems surrounded the faltering government.
Through the thicket of legs around him, Harry spotted Fred and George Weasley, wrestling the rogue Bludger into a box.
哈利透过周围密密麻麻的许多条腿,看见弗雷德和乔治·韦斯莱兄弟俩正拼命把那只撒野的游走球按压进箱子里。
copse: a small group of trees coppice: an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are, or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber grove: a small wood, orchard, or group of trees