put/set pen to paper• Good old-fashionedmotives for putting pen to paper.• In February of 1942 and again in May of that year he had put pen to paper and logged his past.• I have put pen to paper sparingly, aware that pictures speak louder than words.• So if you are fun-loving and open-minded, put pen to paper.• So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions.• He then put pen to paper, and soon a stream of adjectives was flowing.• And striker Geoff Ferris is likely to put pen to paper for 12 months.• I had written a very fine book in my head before arriving, without setting pen to paper.
4.[countableC]American EnglishAmE informalSCJ a short form of penitentiary/ ‘penitentiary’ 的缩略式 , 监狱
5.[countableC]British EnglishBrE informal a penalty, used especially when talking about football 处罚,〔尤指足球的〕点球
1literaryWRITE to write something such as a letter, a book etc, especially using a pen 〔尤指用钢笔〕写
a song penned by George Clinton
乔治·克林顿写的歌
2pen somebody/something ↔ up/inphrasal verbphr v
a)TADto shut an animal in a small enclosed area 把〔动物〕关入围栏中
b)be penned up/inLIMIT to be restricted or forced to remain in a small place 被约束,被束缚
Norma felt restless and penned in.
诺尔玛犹如笼中困兽,焦躁不安。
Examples from the Corpus
pen up/in• Craig and Johnson met the way practically anyone meets an inmate: They became penpals.• Some of the small ones were ink-stained, and I realized that these had been for inkbottles and pens.• This gridenables the software to determine the position of the pen.• There was a dearth of pens that day inclass.• The pen comes in it's own attractiveslip case.• I m going to get a markerpen and colour in one side - hey presto, a KeaneKickmaster.• The tinypens, scrawling inpalsiedtraces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt.• Where Peach's pen had been in the window was a cage with a snake in it, curled up on straw.