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A thicket is a patch of bushes and small trees growing so close together that you cannot easily walk through it. The key idea is not size but density: a thicket may be only a few metres across, but it is packed. A forest you walk in; a thicket you push through, or go around.
A thicket is a patch of bushes and small trees growing so close togetherthicket是一片長得非常密集的灌木和小樹 that you cannot easily walk through it密到你沒辦法輕易走過去 The key idea is not size but density重點不在大小，而在密度 a thicket may be only a few metres across, but it is packed一片thicket可能只有幾公尺寬，但擠得滿滿的 A forest you walk in森林你是走進去的 a thicket you push through, or go around而thicket你是擠過去，或是繞過去
Animals like thickets for exactly that reason — a rabbit or a deer disappears into one and is safe. The word is a little literary. In everyday speech people are more likely to say 'the bushes' or 'all those trees over there'; 'thicket' turns up in novels, nature writing, and hiking descriptions.
Animals like thickets for exactly that reason動物就是因為這樣才喜歡thicket a rabbit or a deer disappears into one and is safe一隻兔子或鹿一鑽進去就消失、也就安全了 The word is a little literary這個字有點文學味 In everyday speech people are more likely to say 'the bushes' or 'all those trees over there'日常口語裡人們比較會說「the bushes那些灌木叢」或「all those trees over there那邊那些樹」 'thicket' turns up in novels, nature writing, and hiking descriptions而「thicket」會出現在小說、自然寫作和登山紀錄裡
It is countable: a thicket, thickets. You often see it with 'of' — a thicket of bamboo, a thicket of thorns.
It is countable: a thicket, thickets這是可數名詞：a thicket、thickets You often see it with 'of' — a thicket of bamboo, a thicket of thorns你常常會看到它後面接「of」，像a thicket of bamboo（一叢竹林）、a thicket of thorns（一叢荊棘）
English also uses it as a picture for anything tangled and hard to get through, and that use is common in newspapers: a thicket of rules, a thicket of wires behind the TV, a thicket of legal problems. Here it keeps the same feeling — not 'a lot of', but 'so many, so tangled, that moving forward is hard'. If you understand the bushes, you understand the metaphor for free.
English also uses it as a picture for anything tangled and hard to get through英文也用它來比喻任何糾結、難以穿過的東西 and that use is common in newspapers這種用法在報紙上很常見 a thicket of rules, a thicket of wires behind the TV, a thicket of legal problems像a thicket of rules（一團亂麻般的規定）、a thicket of wires behind the TV（電視後面一團亂線）、a thicket of legal problems（一堆糾纏的法律問題） Here it keeps the same feeling這裡保留的是同樣的感覺 not 'a lot of', but 'so many, so tangled, that moving forward is hard'不是「很多」，而是「多到、亂到讓人難以往前」 If you understand the bushes, you understand the metaphor for free只要你懂灌木叢的畫面，這個比喻你自然就懂了
組成thick (dense, closely packed) + the old English noun ending -et. Note that -et here is not the 'small' -et you see in some borrowed French words; it simply makes a noun naming a place where the quality is found. German has the same idea in Dickicht.
原始詞典資料3 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。
thicketnoun/ˈθɪkɪt/
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A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.
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A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
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。