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A shrub is a woody plant that stays smaller than a tree and usually sends up several stems from near the ground, rather than one tall trunk. A rose bush, a box hedge, in a garden — those are shrubs.
A shrub is a woody plant that stays smaller than a treeShrub是一種木本植物體型比樹小 and usually sends up several stems from near the ground, rather than one tall trunk通常從接近地面的地方長出好幾根莖而不是一根高高的樹幹。A rose bush, a box hedge, azaleas in a garden玫瑰叢、黃楊樹籬、花園裡的杜鵑 — those are shrubs這些都是shrub。
like the word because it sits between a herb (soft stems) and a tree (one main trunk, tall). Though actually, everyday talk often just says bush; shrub sounds a little more like a garden book or a class, but it is still ordinary.
Gardeners like the word because it sits between a herb (soft stems) and a tree (one main trunk, tall)園藝愛好者喜歡這個字因為它介於herb（軟莖的草本植物）和tree（有一根主幹、高大的樹）之間。Though actually不過, everyday talk often just says bush日常說話通常直接說bush; shrub sounds a little more like a garden book or a classshrub聽起來比較像園藝書或課堂用語, but it is still ordinary但仍然是普通用字。
A group of them planted together is a shrubbery.
A group of them planted together一群種在一起的shrub is a shrubbery叫做shrubbery。
Do not picture only a tiny plant: a shrub can be thick and old. What matters is the woody stems and the shape, not that it is always “small” in a cute way.
Do not picture only a tiny plant不要只想像一株小小的植物: a shrub can be thick and oldshrub也可以又粗又老。What matters is the woody stems and the shape重點在於木質的莖和外型, not that it is always "small" in a cute way而不是它一定要「小巧可愛」。
組成From Middle English schrub, schrob (also heard as scrub), from Old English *sċrob in place-names and sċrybb, “a shrub; underbrush.” Related to Norwegian skrubbe, a small woody plant. Sister-form (doublet) of scrub.
原始詞典資料8 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。
Shrubname
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derogatorygovernmentpoliticsGeorge W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
- Ann Richards [...] is running for reelection as Governor of Texas against George W. Bush, a Republican and the eldest son of the former President. […] She derides him as “all hat and no cattle.” […] Her followers hand out bumper stickers saying: “Don't elect the son-of-a-Bush.” They call him “Shrub.”
- For the past five days, mostly in New York and SC, the Shrub has apparently been running ads that characterize McCain’s policy proposals in what Murphy terms a “willfully distorting” way.
shrubnoun詞源 1/ˈʃɹʌb/
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A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
- Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
shrubverb詞源 1/ˈʃɹʌb/
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obsoleteTo lop; to prune.
- The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.
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rareTo plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
shrubnoun詞源 2/ˈʃɹʌb/
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A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
shrubverb詞源 2/ˈʃɹʌb/
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rareTo make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
shrubverb詞源 3/ˈʃɹʌb/
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slangTo mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
- The people who benefit from making fun of shrubbing, therefore, are Kenyans who do not speak indigenous languages, because they are less likely to shrub than Kenyans who learned English as a second language in school and may have a heavier accent.
- However, Mwandani and her brother had noted that their mother had shrubbed and pointed it out right away.
shrubnoun詞源 3/ˈʃɹʌb/
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slangA word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
- It is not only in face-to-face contexts that Kenyans police shrubbing; there are newspaper columns inviting readers to send in shrubs that they have witnessed, […]
- One of the first people to go on air on X Fm, Raabia (It’s not a kuyu [Kikuyu] shrub for labia) is about to exit the station, she’s being replaced by Mao (their lispy producer) […]
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。