scrubby

英 [ˈskrʌbi]

美 [ˈskrʌbi]

adj.  长满灌木和矮树的; 灌木丛生的; 低矮的; 矮小的

比较级：scrubbier　

BNC.33508 / COCA.25188

牛津词典

adj.

• 长满灌木和矮树的；灌木丛生的
  covered with small bushes and trees
  1. a scrubby hillside
     灌木丛生的山坡
• 低矮的；矮小的
  small and not fully developed
  1. scrubby vegetation
     灌木植被

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (地表)崎岖干燥的,灌木丛生的
  Scrubbyland is rough and dry and covered with scrub.
  1. ...the hot, scrubby hills of western Eritrea.
     厄立特里亚西部酷热而且灌木丛生的丘陵地带

英英释义

adj

• inferior in size or quality
  1. scrawny cattle
  2. scrubby cut-over pine
  3. old stunted thorn trees
  Synonym:scrawnystunted
• sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
  1. open scrubby woods
  Synonym:scrabbly

双语例句

• After instructions are given on how to communicate with our camels, we're off into a rough land of red dirt and low, scrubby grass.
  我们听完了如何与骆驼沟通的指导后，就出发前往布满红土与低矮草丛的荒野大地。
• In some of the grainy pictures, scrubby and deserted patches of creosote and mesquite sway in a gentle wind;
  透过这些镜头，可以看到低矮荒芜的斑状杂酚油和豆科灌木在风中摇摆；
• Canopy interception of tree and shrub plantations in a farming-pastoral zone of Loess Plateau Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  黄土高原农牧交错带人工乔灌木林冠截留灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• Scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees.
  瘦骨如柴的牛；矮小的被砍断的松树；老而矮小的荆棘。
• In the middle of a scrubby business park on the outskirts of Dublin, a hulking grey building has recently sprung up.
  在都柏林郊外一片灌木丛生的商业园区中央，一座庞大的灰色建筑最近拔地而起。
• I am a lackluster scholar, with scrubby and talent to Beijing fears that exam, as most of the same exam, go home frustrated.
  我是一位落魄的书生，带着穷酸与才华战战兢兢的进京赶考，一如大都赶考的一样，失意而归。
• He is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head, and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back.
  他是个温和，胆小的人；他秃头顶，脑袋亮亮的，一撮乱蓬蓬的黑发在后面翘了起来。
• Following into a hole of the base of some scrubby bushes, he started digging with a metal pole.
  接着在一片杂木丛生的灌木丛中发现了一个洞，他开始用金属棒往里捅。
• The agronomic traits of mutants showed scrubby plant, shorter leaves, smaller panicle, low seed setting rate, grain number per panicle^ 1000-grain weight and grain density reduced.
  农艺性状方面突变体表现为株高降低，剑叶缩短，稻穗变小，每穗总粒数和实粒数减少，结实率下降，千粒重减轻，着粒密度变稀等。