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

• We gathered some brushwood to make a fire.
  我们收集了一些断下的树枝用以生火。
• 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。
• It is akin to allowing occasional small forest fires to clear the brushwood, rather than extinguishing them and risking a huge conflagration.
  这类似于让偶然爆发的小规模森林火灾烧掉那些低矮的灌木丛，而不是将其扑灭，并甘冒酿成大火的风险。
• They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
  在草丛之中采咸草，罗腾（小树名，松类）的根为他们的食物。
• He enjoy the forest, brushwood outside the garden.
  他喜欢去花园外面的树林里、草丛中玩儿。
• This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the brushwood until it reached Jean valjean.
  可是这一次他那个值四十苏的钱落了空，向那丛荆棘了去，滚到了冉阿让的脚边。
• 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。
• Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood.
  一种与印度榕树相似的澳洲榕，通常栽培供观赏，；已引种至非洲南部作薪柴。
• 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。
• Brushwood's function and scientific development, the necessity and feasibility to utilize brushwood, and administrative and technical measures to develop and utilize efficient brushwood were discussed, arousing people to pay attention to development and utilization of brushwood.
  论述了灌木林的自身功能、科学发展和综合利用灌木林的必要性、可行性，以及发展与利用高效灌木林的一些行政措施和技术措施，从而启发人们重视灌木林的发展与利用。