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

• 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。
• We gathered some brushwood to make a fire.
  我们收集了一些断下的树枝用以生火。
• 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。
• 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。
• I value Mary for her personality, not for her good look. Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you?
  我非常喜欢玛丽，是因为她的人格，而不是她的姣容。你曾否穿越树丛，为跟在你后面走来的姣好的头分开枝叶呢？
• Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and pick.
  两三个钟头过后，蒲辣秃柳儿看见他那老相知又从树丛里出来，可是他现在掮的不是那只小箱，而是一把镐和一把锹。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most of the aggregative birds were habitat in brushwood, however, 60% birds were not aggregative.
  集群鸟类大都生活在草灌丛，不集群的鸟类占总种数的60%。
• 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。