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A hedgerow is a long, thick line of bushes — and often small trees — growing along the edge of a field or a country road. It is a living wall, not a wooden fence, and not one bush standing alone. In Britain especially, farmers have used hedgerows for hundreds of years to mark land, keep animals in, and give birds and insects a home. Wild flowers often grow in them too. The word feels rural and British; American English more often just says hedge. You will see hedgerow in writing about the countryside, walks, and wildlife. Though actually, a tidy garden hedge cut into a short green box is not quite what people mean. A hedgerow is usually mixed, a bit wild, and stretched out like a row beside the field.
樹籬、灌木籬(英國鄉間田邊或路旁那一排灌木,不是木造圍籬)
原始詞典資料1 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。
hedgerownoun/ˈhɛd͡ʒɹəʊ/
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A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。