| 单词 | 茂密 |
| 释义 | 〔bracken〕A widespread, often weedy fern(Pteridium aquilinum) having large, triangular, pinnately compound fronds and often forming dense thickets. 欧洲蕨：一种分布广泛，常为蔓生的（欧洲蕨 蕨属） 蕨类植物，具有大型、三角形羽状复叶，通常形成茂密的灌木丛 〔backwoods〕Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.偏远蛮荒林区：森林茂密的、未开垦的人烟稀少的地区〔rank〕Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile:极度肥沃的：生长出茂密乃至超常植物的；极其肥沃的：〔jungle〕One might be surprised to learn that the wordjungle is not African in origin nor does it come from a word that only meant "land densely overgrown with tropical vegetation and trees.” Jungle goes back to the Sanskrit word jaṅgalam, meaning "desert, wasteland,”and also "any kind of uncultivated area, such as heavily forested land.”The Sanskrit wordjaṅgala- passed into various Indian languages and from one or more of these languages into English.In Englishjungle was used for land overgrown with vegetation, for the vegetation itself,and for such land outside India.The word was also extended figuratively in various ways.We have, for example, asphalt jungles, concrete jungles, blackboard jungles, academic jungles, corporate jungles,and, in a February 1972 issue of theGuardian, the government official who "lit up some lurid corners of the taxation jungle.”jungle 一词的词源不是非洲语，也不是来自仅仅意为“长满茂密的热带植物和树木的地带”的单词；知道这一点也许会让人吃惊。 Jungle 可追溯到梵语词 jangalam ， 其意为“荒漠，荒原”，也指“任何未开垦的地域，如茂密的森林”。梵语词jangala- 传入多种印度语中， 又从这其中的一种或多种语言再传入英语。在英语中jungle 用来指长满植物的地带， 指植物本身，也指印度以外的类似地带。该词也在多方面引申为比喻意义。例如，我们有柏油丛林、水泥丛林、黑板丛林、学术丛林、公司丛林，此外在1972年2月发行的一期卫报 上， 还出现了“揭露税收丛林中鲜为人知的龌龊勾当”的政府官员〔selva〕A dense tropical rain forest usually having a cloud cover, especially one in the Amazon Basin.热带雨林：茂密的热带雨林，通常林木遮天，尤指亚马逊盆地的〔pollard〕A tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots.截头树：顶部枝桠被截到树干处的树，这样做是为了能让它长出茂密的新枝〔jungle〕A dense thicket or growth.丛林，密林：茂密的灌木丛或生长物〔grove〕A small wood or stand of trees that lacks dense undergrowth.小树林：缺乏茂密下层树丛的小树林或树木群体〔canebrake〕A dense thicket of cane.甘蔗丛：茂密的甘蔗林〔maquis〕A dense growth of small trees and shrubs in the Mediterranean area.地中海地区茂密的小树林和灌木丛林〔slash〕We slashed through the dense jungle.我们从茂密的丛林里劈出了一条路〔tumbleweed〕Any of various densely branched annual plants, such as amaranth and Russian thistle, that break off from the roots at the end of the growing season and are rolled about by the wind.广布苋，风滚草：多种枝条茂密的一年生植物中的一种，如苋和细叶钾猪毛菜，在植物生长期的末期，从根部脱离，被风吹动，在田野里滚动〔rank〕Growing profusely or with excessive vigor:茂密丛生的：生长得茂密或速度极快的： |
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