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

• The property development was supposed to bring five continents, in the form of artificial islands, to scrubby farmland near the booming city of Tianjin.
  这个房地产开发项目原本要以人工岛的形式，把五大洲搬到繁荣发展的天津附近的贫瘠农地。
• He is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head, and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back.
  他是个温和，胆小的人；他秃头顶，脑袋亮亮的，一撮乱蓬蓬的黑发在后面翘了起来。
• Small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea.
  澳大利亚和新几内亚灌木丛生的地区中褐红色的小沙袋鼠。
• 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。
• 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。
• I am a lackluster scholar, with scrubby and talent to Beijing fears that exam, as most of the same exam, go home frustrated.
  我是一位落魄的书生，带着穷酸与才华战战兢兢的进京赶考，一如大都赶考的一样，失意而归。
• The agronomic traits of mutants showed scrubby plant, shorter leaves, smaller panicle, low seed setting rate, grain number per panicle^ 1000-grain weight and grain density reduced.
  农艺性状方面突变体表现为株高降低，剑叶缩短，稻穗变小，每穗总粒数和实粒数减少，结实率下降，千粒重减轻，着粒密度变稀等。
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• 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。
• In some of the grainy pictures, scrubby and deserted patches of creosote and mesquite sway in a gentle wind;
  透过这些镜头，可以看到低矮荒芜的斑状杂酚油和豆科灌木在风中摇摆；