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。

双语例句

• I penned a few words to father today.
  今天，我给父亲写了一封短信。
• 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。
• Johnnie Boden penned a letter that went out to selected customers last week who had stopped buying from him.
  约翰尼•波登最近写了一封信，有选择地发给一些顾客：他们都是已经停止向其购物的人。
• She penned a few words of thanks.
  她写了几句致谢的话。
• He penned a letter to the local paper.
  他给当地报纸写了一封信。
• 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。
• Parents have received angry letters penned in staffrooms and handed to children.
  家长们收到了教师在办公室里起草，交给孩子带回家的愤怒信件。
• 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。
• I recently penned a piece for forensic Asia called accounting Wars: Transnational regulation in China.
  最近，我为ForensicAsia撰写了一篇题为《会计战：中国的跨国法规》（AccountingWars：TransnationalRegulationinChina）的文章。
• 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。