HBPbushes, small trees, and other plants growing around and under bigger trees 〔长在大树下或周边的〕下木层,下层灌木丛
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undergrowth• We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the denseundergrowth, chopping at it with junglemachetes.• Sandra hid in undergrowthnearby as Robert was repeatedly stabbed in the chest and beaten by the gang.• Mrs Nishimae stops, putting a finger over her lips, then disappears through a small opening in a tangle of undergrowth.• Even if she reached the trees, the Dragoons would soon ride Sharpe down in the tangle of undergrowth.• There was a scuffle, and then a woman's giggle, among the undergrowth toward the centre of the small coppice.• Benjamin heard the faintcrackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit.• Something rustled in the undergrowth.• Crunching up the gravel drive past a clump of rhododendrons, she heard a scuffle in the undergrowth.• And if they did they wouldn't be laughing; they'd be too busytracking their way through the undergrowth.
(BrE) ➡ see also underbrushADJECTIVE | ... OF UNDERGROWTH | VERB + UNDERGROWTH | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deep, dense, lush, tangled, thick深深的/濃密的/茂盛的/纏結的/茂密的灌木叢... OF UNDERGROWTH➤patch, tangle一片/纏在一起的灌木叢VERB + UNDERGROWTH➤clear清除灌木PREPOSITION➤into the undergrowth進入灌木叢中◇The snake slithered off into the undergrowth.那條蛇鑽進了灌木叢。➤in the undergrowth在灌木叢裏◇I noticed someone hiding in the undergrowth.我注意到有人躲在灌木叢裏。➤through the undergrowth穿越灌木叢◇I could hear him crashing through the undergrowth.我能聽到他嘩啦嘩啦穿越灌木叢的聲音。