Chaparral is a kind of land, especially on the dry, sunny hills of California and the American southwest: small oak trees and other low, tough, evergreen bushes growing so close together that you can hardly walk through. After rain it can look green; in late summer it is dry and can burn.

Chaparral is a kind of land, especially on the dry, sunny hills of California and the American southwestChaparral是一種地形，尤其出現在加州和美國西南部乾燥、陽光充足的丘陵上 small oak trees and other low, tough, evergreen bushes growing so close together that you can hardly walk through指矮橡樹和其他低矮、耐旱的常綠灌木長得非常密，密到你幾乎走不過去 After rain it can look green下雨後看起來會是綠的 in late summer it is dry and can burn到了夏末就變乾，可能會起火

The dictionary picture is “land of small oaks packed tight,” and that is a fair start — the Spanish name itself points at the oak. Though actually, people who live with it use the word for the whole shrubland, not only the oaks: a mix of low woody plants that like heat and hate wet feet.

The dictionary picture is land of small oaks packed tight, and that is a fair start字典給的畫面是『長滿矮橡樹、擠得密密麻麻的地』，這個說法算是不錯的起點 the Spanish name itself points at the oak這個西班牙文名字本身指的就是橡樹 Though actually, people who live with it use the word for the whole shrubland, not only the oaks不過其實，住在當地的人會用這個字指整片灌木叢，不只是橡樹 a mix of low woody plants that like heat and hate wet feet也就是一群喜歡炎熱、討厭根部積水的矮木本植物混在一起

You will not hear it for countryside in Taiwan; it is a New World landscape word, borrowed from Spanish.

You will not hear it for countryside in Taiwan你不會聽到有人用這個字講台灣的鄉間 it is a New World landscape word, borrowed from Spanish這是一個從西班牙文借來、專指新大陸地貌的字

In science writing it names that whole plant community. In ordinary American talk it is simply “those thick dry hills.”

In science writing在科學寫作裡 it names that whole plant community它指的是整個那樣的植物群落 In ordinary American talk在美國人的日常口語裡 it is simply those thick dry hills它就是『那些又密又乾的丘陵』