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    A bramble is a wild blackberry bush: a messy, scratchy plant with long arching stems, sharp thorns, and, in season, dark berries.

    A bramble(這個字) is a wild blackberry bush是野生黑莓灌木:a messy, scratchy plant with long arching stems一種雜亂、會刮人的植物,有長長彎彎的莖,sharp thorns尖銳的刺,and, in season, dark berries而且到了季節會結深色的莓果。

    In British English especially, people also say brambles for the berries themselves, and for a tangle of such bushes in a hedge or at the edge of a field.

    In British English especially尤其在英式英語裡,people also say brambles for the berries themselves人們也會用brambles來指那些莓果本身,and for a tangle of such bushes in a hedge or at the edge of a field也指樹籬或田邊那種糾結成一團的灌木叢。

    The plant grabs at clothes and skin; that is why the word can feel a little wild and , not like a garden rose.

    The plant grabs at clothes and skin這種植物會勾住衣服和皮膚;that is why the word can feel a little wild and unfriendly這就是為什麼這個字聽起來有點狂野、不友善,not like a garden rose不像花園裡的玫瑰。

    Other thorny wild bushes sometimes get called brambles too, but the core picture is the wild blackberry. You will not meet this plant much on a street; it belongs to countryside English, hiking paths, and stories about getting scratched while picking fruit.

    Other thorny wild bushes sometimes get called brambles too其他多刺的野生灌木有時候也會被叫做brambles,but the core picture is the wild blackberry但核心的畫面就是野生黑莓。You will not meet this plant much on a Taipei street你在台北街頭不太會遇到這種植物;it belongs to countryside English它屬於鄉間英語、hiking paths登山步道、and stories about getting scratched while picking fruit還有摘水果被刮傷的故事。

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組成From Middle English brembel, Old English bræmbel / brēmel. It was a smaller-form of an old plant name that became English broom (the shrub, not at first the sweeping tool).

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  • broomthe shrub called broom; bramble started as a smaller form of that old plant name

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Bramblename

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    A surname.

bramblenoun/ˈbɹæm.bəl/

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    Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.

    • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
    • At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
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    Any thorny shrub.

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    A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

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    The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

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    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.

brambleverb/ˈbɹæm.bəl/

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    To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。