单词 | bush |
释义 | bush I. 1. a. < a blueberry bush > b. < bushes suitable for a hedge > c. dialect England 2. a. (1) < a field overgrown with bush > (2) < part of the land once cultivated has been abandoned, to the sea, to flood waters, or to bush — W.A.Lewis > (3) < in the dense bush … creepers of many kinds and of every size, from huge cables to thin cords, loop from tree to tree, pushing up to the sunlight and knotting the undergrowth into impenetrable thickets — C.D.Forde > b. < all this property … was bush where last year nothing thrived but zebra and impala, wildebeest and bad snakes — Basil Davidson > c. < bush doctor > < bush flying > < bush airline > — usually used with the when not attributive < in the lonely bush — Henry Lawson > < boys from the bush — Esther Warner > specifically 3. a. (1) archaic (2) obsolete b. < good wine needs no bush — Shakespeare > < good essays need no bush — Yale Review > 4. < the ermine bush of feathers that formed the crest — W.H.St.John Hope > < bushes of black smoke — Barrett McGurn > < a bush of hair — Roger Senhouse > 5. 6. < finally decided to ship him back to the bushes — Scholastic Coach > II. transitive verb 1. < the birch he said I could have to bush my peas — Robert Frost > 2. < a logging road across the river was bushed where the ice was safe > 3. intransitive verb < his eyebrows bushed together > < he looked about 30 but surprising gray hair bushed out of his fore-and-aft cap — Richard Llewellyn > • - bush it III. < bush snap beans > IV. 1. 2. V. VI. VII. < the travesty was not that the speedway went the show-business route, but that the execution was so bush — J.S.Radosta > |
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