核心畫面

Picture a plant by a wall, up to about your shoulder. There is no single trunk — a lot of woody stems come straight out of the ground and push out in every direction, so close together that the whole thing reads as one thick, rounded mass you cannot see through. A bush can be thought of as that mass. The word's other uses keep the mass and change what it is made of: whole country covered in it, or hair doing the same thing on someone's head.

可以想成牆邊那株植物,大概到你肩膀高。它沒有一根主幹,是很多細木質的枝條直接從地上長出來,往四面八方擠,密到整株看起更多收起可以想成牆邊那株植物,大概到你肩膀高。它沒有一根主幹,是很多細木質的枝條直接從地上長出來,往四面八方擠,密到整株看起來就是一團圓圓厚厚、看不透的東西。bush 可以想成就是那一團。這個字其他的用法,都是把「那一團」留著、換掉它的材料:整片國土被這種東西蓋滿,或是頭上的頭髮長成同一個樣子。

From the picture

長成同一團的東西

把一叢往外放大或換材料:一叢接一叢連成看不到盡頭的一整片,就是野地;同樣那個「往四面蓬出來、密到看不透」的樣子出現在別的東西上,就拿來形容那個東西。

wild uncleared country · noun · B2

Wild open country that no one has cleared or built on, especially in Australia or Africa.

荒野 / 叢林野地

Also in this word

small woody plant · noun · B2

A plant that is smaller than a tree, with many woody branches growing close together from the ground.

灌木 / 矮樹叢

原始詞典資料31 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Bushname/bʊʃ/

  • 1

    A surname from Middle English.

    • In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.
    • When Larissa Santos opened her front door and saw Rachel Bush for the first time, she was immediately flooded with emotions.
  • 2

    A surname from Middle English.

  • 3

    A surname from Middle English.

    • This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)
  • 4

    A place name:

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bushnoun詞源 1/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    agriculturebusinesshorticultureA woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  • 2

    A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

    • bushes to support pea vines
  • 3

    archaicdialectalA thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.

    • We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space.
  • 4

    historicalA shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

    • If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.
    • "Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush."
  • 5

    vulgarslangA person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

    • As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion.
    • I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.
  • 6

    hobbieshuntinglifestyleThe tail, or brush, of a fox.

bushverb詞源 1/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

    • Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
  • 2

    To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

    • to bush peas
  • 3

    To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

    • to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
  • 4

    To become bushy (often used with up).

    • I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.

bushnoun詞源 2/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    archaicA tavern or wine merchant.

bushnoun詞源 3/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

    • The Gentlemen took to the Bush and escaped being made prisoners.
    • Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned.
  • 2

    Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

    • (Davis) my Convict Servant who was in the Boat with me begd of me not to goe on Shore he is one of the greatest Cowards living I cald to them again when I got to ther fire for the[y] had run into the bush on there Seing the Boat pulling towards them
    • I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.
  • 3

    Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

  • 4

    Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

  • 5

    A wood lot or bluff on a farm.

bushadv詞源 3/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    Towards the direction of the outback.

    • On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

bushadj詞源 4/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

    • They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

bushnoun詞源 4/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesAmateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior

bushnoun詞源 5/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

  • 2

    A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

  • 3

    A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

bushverb詞源 5/ˈbʊʃ/

  • 1

    To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

    • to bush a pivot hole

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