scrubby

英 [ˈskrʌbi]

美 [ˈskrʌbi]

adj.  长满灌木和矮树的; 灌木丛生的; 低矮的; 矮小的

比较级：scrubbier　

BNC.33508 / COCA.25188

牛津词典

adj.

• 长满灌木和矮树的；灌木丛生的
  covered with small bushes and trees
  1. a scrubby hillside
     灌木丛生的山坡
• 低矮的；矮小的
  small and not fully developed
  1. scrubby vegetation
     灌木植被

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (地表)崎岖干燥的,灌木丛生的
  Scrubbyland is rough and dry and covered with scrub.
  1. ...the hot, scrubby hills of western Eritrea.
     厄立特里亚西部酷热而且灌木丛生的丘陵地带

英英释义

adj

• inferior in size or quality
  1. scrawny cattle
  2. scrubby cut-over pine
  3. old stunted thorn trees
  Synonym:scrawnystunted
• sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
  1. open scrubby woods
  Synonym:scrabbly

双语例句

• After instructions are given on how to communicate with our camels, we're off into a rough land of red dirt and low, scrubby grass.
  我们听完了如何与骆驼沟通的指导后，就出发前往布满红土与低矮草丛的荒野大地。
• Following into a hole of the base of some scrubby bushes, he started digging with a metal pole.
  接着在一片杂木丛生的灌木丛中发现了一个洞，他开始用金属棒往里捅。
• In the middle of a scrubby business park on the outskirts of Dublin, a hulking grey building has recently sprung up.
  在都柏林郊外一片灌木丛生的商业园区中央，一座庞大的灰色建筑最近拔地而起。
• The oldest living thing is also a tree& a scrubby bristle-cone pine, 4,900 years old, growing on the cold, bare side of a Nevada mountain.
  最古老的生物也是树：一株低矮的狐尾松树，4900岁，生长在美国内华达州的寒冷荒凉的山坡上。
• The Rate of Carbon Dioxide Release from Alpine Scrubby Meadow Soil Under Different Grazing Intensity
  放牧强度对高寒灌丛草甸土壤CO2释放速率的影响
• Canopy interception of tree and shrub plantations in a farming-pastoral zone of Loess Plateau Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  黄土高原农牧交错带人工乔灌木林冠截留灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• He had once been a big star but now at the young age of thirty-five he was washed up. After instructions are given on how to communicate with our camels, we're off into a rough land of red dirt and low, scrubby grass.
  他曾经是红极一时的大明星，但在三十五岁这个年纪上就像废物一样给冲进臭水沟了。我们听完了如何与骆驼沟通的指导后，就出发前往布满红土与低矮草丛的荒野大地。
• Scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms.
  一种似灌木状的澳大利亚金合欢树，开花时有极难闻的气味。
• Scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees.
  瘦骨如柴的牛；矮小的被砍断的松树；老而矮小的荆棘。
• A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottage from view, as seem to denote that here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed.
  半岛上只长着一丛孤零零的矮树，非但没有遮住茅屋，反倒象是在指示出这里有一个目标，而那个目标原本不情愿或至少是应该被挡得看不见的。