Dense Lot Difficult Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 Densely Understand Dens
The word 'dense' refers to things or people being close together with little space, such as 'dense forest', 'dense smoke', 'dense star' (meaning high density), and 'dense prose' for writing that is hard to understand due to a lot of information. It can also describe a person as 'dense', meaning foolish or slow to understand.
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]稠密的;密集的 Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area.
Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest...
布加勒斯特的所在地过去曾是一大片茂密的森林。
Its fur is short, dense and silky...
它的毛又短又密,柔软光洁。
They thrust their way through the dense crowd.
他们挤过密集的人群。
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Java is a densely populated island...
爪哇岛人口稠密。
The fire struck a densely wooded area of Oakland.
奥克兰一个树木茂密的地区发生了大火。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](雾、烟等)浓的,浓重的Dense fog or smoke is difficult to see through because it is very heavy and dark.
A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air.
一股浓烟升到了几英里的高空。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](物质)密度大的 In science, a dense substance is very heavy in relation to its volume.
[TECHNICAL 术语]
...a small dense star.
密度很大的小恒星
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](文章、电影等因信息量大而)难懂的,费解的 If you describe writing or a film as dense, you mean that it is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information and ideas.
[disapproval]
His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.
他的散文文笔有力、内容庞杂,有时几近晦涩。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]愚蠢的;愚钝的;鲁钝的 If you say that someone is dense, you mean that you think they are stupid and that they take a long time to understand simple things.
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[INFORMAL 非正式]
He's not a bad man, just a bit dense.
他人不坏,就是有点儿愚钝。
Oxford
dense/dens; NAmEdens/adjective(dens·er,dens·est)1containing a lot of people, things, plants, etc. with little space between them 密集的;稠密的◆a dense crowd/forest密集的人群;密林◆areas of dense population人口密集地区2difficult to see through 浓密的;浓重的SYN
thick
◆dense fog/smoke/fumes浓雾╱烟;浓烈的气体3( informal) stupid 愚笨的;迟钝的;笨拙的◆How can you be so dense?你怎么会这么笨?4difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information (信息量大得)难理解的,难懂的◆a dense piece of writing难懂的文章5( technical 术语) heavy in relation to its size 密度大的;密实的◆Less dense substances move upwards to form a crust.密度小的物质向上浮动并形成一硬层。▶dense·ly/densli; NAmEdensli/adverb◆a densely populatedarea 人口密集地区◆densely covered/packed盖得╱包得严实的densedenserdensestdense/dens; NAmEdens/dense·ly/densli; NAmEdensli/
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densedense /dens/ ●●○ adjective
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1made of or containing a lot of things or people that are very close togetherSYN thickdense undergrowth/forest/woodland/jungle etc A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest. the city's dense population2difficult to see through or breathe indense fog/smoke/cloud dense black smoke3informal not able to understand things easilySYN stupid: Am I being dense? I don’t quite understand.4a dense piece of writing is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information or uses complicated language5 technical a substance that is dense has a lot of mass in relation to its size: Water is eight hundred times denser than air.—densely adverb: a densely populated area—denseness noun [uncountable]COLLOCATIONSnounsdense forest/wood/woodland/jungle· Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.dense undergrowth (=plants, bushes etc growing around and under trees)· The bird is found mainly in woodland where there is dense undergrowth.dense vegetation (=plants in general)· The land around here is covered with dense vegetation.dense foliage (=leaves of a plant or tree)· a thick bushy plant with dense foliagea dense covering of something· steep-sided mountains with a dense covering of treesa dense mass· a dense mass of equatorial rainforesta dense network of something· The country is served by a dense network of roads.a dense population (=a lot of people living close together)· Britain has a particular problem because of dense population.
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浓密的(39%),密集的(36%),稠密的(25%)
adj.稠密的;浓厚的;愚钝的
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