[N-COUNT 可数名词]灌木;灌木丛 A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
Trees and bushes grew down to the water's edge.
树和灌木丛一直长到了水边。
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[N-SING 单数名词](热带国家未开发的)荒野地带,丛林地带 The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush.
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They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours...
他们花了36个小时穿过茂密的莫桑比克丛林。
The jeep was found lying in thick bush.
人们发现吉普车翻倒在一处茂密的丛林里。
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[PHRASE 短语]拐弯抹角;旁敲侧击 If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.
[V inflects]
Stop beating about the bush. What's he done?
别再拐弯抹角了,他到底干了什么?
Oxford
bush★/bʊʃ; NAmEbʊʃ/noun1★[countable ]a plant that grows thickly with several hard stemscoming up from the root 灌木◆a rose bush玫瑰丛◆holly bushes冬青树丛☞compare
tree
2[countable ]a thing that looks like a bush, especially an area of thick hair or fur 类似灌木的东西(尤指浓密的毛发或皮毛)3(oftenthe bush )[uncountable ]an area of wild land that has not been cleared, especially in Africa and Australia; in New Zealand an area where the forest has not been cleared (尤指非洲和澳大利亚的)荒野;(新西兰未被砍伐的)林区IDIOMsee
beat
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bird
n.bushbushesbushedbushingbush/bʊʃ; NAmEbʊʃ/
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bushbush /bʊʃ/ ●●●S3 noun [countable]
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1a plant with many thin branches growing up from the ground → tree, shrub: a rose bush The child was hiding in the bushes.2the bush wild country that has not been cleared, especially in Australia or Africa3a bush of hair is a lot of thick untidy hair → beat about the bush
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