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

• Green plants divide road group; brushwood and arbors divide walk path and roadway system.
  由绿植划分道路组团；灌木丛与乔木丛分别划分行走路径与车行道路体系。
• 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。
• 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。
• Your servant's heart is revealed in little acts that others don't think of doing, as when Paul gathered brushwood for a fire to warm everyone after a shipwreck.
  仆人的心志常在没有人想做的小事上显明出来。正如保罗在沉船后去拾柴生火，让众人取暖。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
  亚伯拉罕举目观看，不料，有一只公羊，两角扣在稠密的小树中，亚伯拉罕就取了那只公羊来，献为燔祭，代替他的儿子。
• Come on! We're going for the brushwood.
  来吧！我们去拾些柴火。