penned

英 [pend]

美 [pend]

v. 写; (把…)关起来，圈起来
pen的过去分词和过去式

过去式：penned　

COCA.41989

柯林斯词典

See also:fountain pen
VERB 写；书写
If someonepensa letter, article, or book, they write it.
1. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning...
  我真的打算今天一大早给你写这封信的。
2. She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
  她给他的私人秘书写了一份简短的备忘录。
See also:...a holding pen for sheep...He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.playpen
VERB 把…关起来；把…圈起来
If people or animalsare pennedsomewhere orare penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
1. ...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
  将牛群赶回家，这样就能挤奶并将其关进牛棚过夜
2. The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day...
  山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
3. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
  我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
监狱
People sometimes saythe pento refer to a prison.
PHRASE 动笔；下笔
If youput pen to paper, you write something.
1. Whenever he put pen to paper he was at a loss for the right words to break the news.
  他每次一提笔就不知道如何措辞透露这个消息。

An unnamed writer from The Daily Show penned some of his jokes.
一位《每日秀》的匿名作家记录了当晚奥巴马讲的一些笑话。
There our childhood had been penned up by an honest old dame.
在那里，那诚实的老妇人曾关闭着我们的童年时代。
The professor may not know that he has many phantom colleagues who have penned Chinese best-sellers.
这位教授可能不知道，他有许多虚幻的同事写的书是中国畅销书。
Before she left she penned up both dogs in the back yard.
离开之前，她把两只狗都关在后院里。
They had the head and voice and bristles and body of swine but their minds remained unchanged as before, so they were penned there weeping.
他们有头和声音和猪鬃和猪的身体，因此他们被圈起来了哭泣。
She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
她觉得做家庭主妇很受束缚。
I penned a few words to father today.
今天，我给父亲写了一封短信。
Young men sport white Gandhi caps with "I am Anna" penned onthe sides.
年轻人头戴侧面写有“我是安纳”字样的甘地式帽子。
The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day
山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
She penned a note of thanks to her hostess.
她写了一个表示感谢的便笺给女主人。