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

• 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。
• Evergreen shrubs were interspersed among ( between) the trees ( British) a copse that shelters game.
  （英国）防护用的灌木林。灌木丛散布于树林间。
• I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there.
  我还看见过橡树林中留存着的砖头。
• 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。
• 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。
• The militiamen carried Prince Andrey to the copse, where there were vans and an ambulance station.
  后备军人们把安德烈公爵抬到林边，那儿停着几辆大车，救护站就在那儿。
• ( 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；
• As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following manner
  一走进小树林，咖苔琳夫人便用这样的方式跟她谈话
• 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。