[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。
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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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