brushwood

英 [ˈbrʌʃwʊd]

美 [ˈbrʌʃwʊd]

n.  (常指当柴火用的)断树枝，枯树枝

BNC.34816 / COCA.42597

牛津词典

noun

• （常指当柴火用的）断树枝，枯树枝
  small broken or dead branches of trees, often used to make fires

柯林斯词典

• 断树枝；枯树枝
  Brushwoodconsists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.

英英释义

noun

• a dense growth of bushes
  Synonym:brushcoppicecopsethicket
• the wood from bushes or small branches
  1. they built a fire of brushwood

双语例句

• They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
  在草丛中叫唤，在荆棘下聚集。
• There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles.
  山顶有久已废弃的墓园，各条小径灌木丛生，还有成排成排的空白墓碑。
• You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat grass like the beasts of the forest.
  你将在草莽中爬着走，你将象树林中的野人一样吃草。
• And patches of Blackness where the woodmen had Burned the Brushwood and rubBish.
  还有几处乌黑的地方，那是樵夫们焚烧树枝乱草和废物过后的痕迹。
• The winter was coming, and the weather was getting even colder, the little ugly duck can only live in the brushwood alone.
  冬天来了，天气变得更冷了，可怜的丑小鸭只能孤单地生活在草丛里。
• A dog barks at the brushwood gate,| as someone heads home this windy, snowy night.
  柴门闻犬吠，风雪夜归人。（刘长卿《逢雪宿芙蓉山主人》）
• Slowly now it floated among logs and brushwood and over the flooded land.
  这时它缓缓地在树干和矮树间漂浮着，又浮到被洪水淹没的陆地上。
• They sleep on brushwood and taste gall.
  他们卧薪尝胆。
• Come on! We're going for the brushwood.
  来吧！我们去拾些柴火。
• Inside the barren house, piles of brushwood, litter and building materials lie strewn about.
  在这栋荒凉的房子内部，枯树枝、垃圾和建筑材料堆得到处都是。