copse

英 [kɒps]

美 [kɑːps]

n.  矮林; 萌生林

复数：copses　

BNC.16066 / COCA.28374

牛津词典

noun

• 矮林；萌生林
  a small area of trees or bushes growing together

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 矮树林;灌木丛
  Acopseis a small group of trees growing very close to each other.
  1. ...a little copse of fir trees.
     一小片杉树林

英英释义

noun

• a dense growth of bushes
  Synonym:brushbrushwoodcoppicethicket

双语例句

• Why was this old woman making such a fuss about an old copse which was of no use to anybody?
  为什么这个年老女士会对一片毫无用处的老灌木林如此紧张呢？
• ( British) a copse that shelters game.
  （英国）防护用的灌木林。
• THE INFANTRY, who had been caught unawares in the copse, had run away, and the different companies all confused together had retreated in disorderly crowds.
  几个步兵团在森林中给弄得措手不及，于是从森林中跑出去；
• I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there.
  我还看见过橡树林中留存着的砖头。
• Eventually we got to our feet and ran across the North Lawn to the nearest copse of trees.
  最后，我们站了起来跑过北草坪到最近的灌木林里。
• In the middle of the day they set the hounds into a ravine covered with thickly growing young copse.
  日当午，他们把猎犬放进长满茂密的幼林的峡谷。
• After passing in the smoke through the sixth corps behind the artillery, which had been moved forward and was keeping up a deafening cannonade, they rode into a small copse.
  他们在硝烟中经过第六兵团，向前移动了的大炮在后面震耳欲聋地射击着，他们走到一座不大的森林。
• This was Timohin's division, the only one that had retained its good order in the copse, and hiding in ambush in the ditch behind the copse, had suddenly attacked the French.
  这是季莫欣指挥的连队，惟有这个连队在森林中顺利地坚守阵地，埋伏在森林附近的沟渠，突然向法军官兵发动进攻。
• The ambulance station consisted of three tents, pitched at the edge of a birch copse.
  救护站是在小白桦树林边塔了三个卷着边的帐篷。
• In the British Isles and western Europe it is common copse and hedge plant.
  在不列颠群岛和西欧为常见萌生林和绿篱植物。