英:[ˈspɪni]
美:[ˈspɪni]
英:[ˈspɪni]
美:[ˈspɪni]
复数:spinneys
"阴暗的树林, 灌木丛," 取自于1590年代的英语词汇 "copse, thicket," 源自于法语词语 espinoi "带荆棘和树杈草丛的地方" (13世纪,现代法语 épinaie), 源自于 espine 或拉丁文词语 spinetum "荆棘篱笆, 灌木丛", 源自于 spina 的拉丁语词汇 "thorn" (请参见 spine )。
杂木林
Anglo-French espinei thorny thicket, ultimately from Latin spinetum, from spina thorn
The first known use of spinney was in 1597
1 Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.
2 A scream on the hidden side of the spinney beneath them linked up the field, believing in one of the glorious surprises that light up the dragging end of the day.
3 He had been out to collect Christmas decorations in his own private fenced spinney, and confound it if some scoundrels hadn't been and gone and stripped his pet holly-tree of every twig!
4 At nightfall, just as the stripling moon sank behind a spinney of firs that crowned the farthest visible dip of that rolling way ahead across the wold, they turned down into Wychford.
5 The soft horn blew, Tom turned the hounds up wind; they drew Up wind, down hill, by spinney side.
6 When the body was found in the spinney, although he had little evidence to go upon, he had, personally, no doubt as to who was the guilty party.
7 Beneath us, the spires of the poplars in the spinney were warm gold, as if the blood shone through.
8 He was horribly afraid; he skulked in the jungle like a wary old fox in a trusty spinney.
9 Sculptural ceiling lights inspired by a Franz West exhibition Edie visited at Tate Modern in 2019 were made by her best friend, the artist Christabel MacGreevy, and side tables were crafted from chunks of pine from a spinney on the property by the designer James Shaw.
10 When opposite he loses sight of it; a spinney of tall poplars drawing curtain-like between him and the higher bank.
11 By the way, Charley, Leathrum says they are hatching plenty of pheasants: the spinneys will be full this season; and I want you to have some good shooting.
12 Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
13 There are forest, spinney , open woodland, plough field, grass and rock around the Great Wall.
长城周围的土地利用类型主要有有林地, 灌木林, 疏林地, 耕地, 荒草地和裸岩.
14 On the left was a spinney of larches showing as yet no crimson plumes of Spring, round which numbers of rabbits gambolled in air that sparkled like golden wine.
15 Over the fence of the spinney was the hillside, scattered with old thorn trees.
16 There were deep lanes, with high hedges, which at the present season of the year were a mass of flowering hawthorn; and every little copse and spinney showed blue with hyacinths.
17 They used to tryst in the poplar spinney.
18 There are forest, spinney , open woodland, plough field, grass and rock around the Great Wall.
长城周围的土地利用类型主要有有林地,灌木林,疏林地,耕地,荒草地和裸岩。
19 Her cheeks were aflame, and her heart was beating like a girl’s as she reached the spinney.
20 Gorse-coverts, hedge-rows, and little spinneys would be of no avail unless there were some grandly wild domain in which maternal and paternal foxes could roam in comparative security.
6 杂树林