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

• 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%。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Small flames stirred at the bole of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing.
  小小的火苗在一株树干上颤动着，又悄悄地爬过簇叶和灌丛蔓延开去，火势在不断增强。
• 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？
• You'll go gather the brushwood over there.
  你们到那边去采集柴枝。