penned

英 [pend]

美 [pend]

v.  写; (把…)关起来，圈起来
pen的过去分词和过去式

过去式：penned　

COCA.41989

柯林斯词典

• See also:fountain pen
• VERB 写；书写
  If someonepensa letter, article, or book, they write it.
  1. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning...
     我真的打算今天一大早给你写这封信的。
  2. She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
     她给他的私人秘书写了一份简短的备忘录。
• See also:...a holding pen for sheep...He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.playpen
• VERB 把…关起来；把…圈起来
  If people or animalsare pennedsomewhere orare penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
  1. ...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
     将牛群赶回家，这样就能挤奶并将其关进牛棚过夜
  2. The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day...
     山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
  3. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
     我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
• 监狱
  People sometimes saythe pento refer to a prison.
• PHRASE 动笔；下笔
  If youput pen to paper, you write something.
  1. Whenever he put pen to paper he was at a loss for the right words to break the news.
     他每次一提笔就不知道如何措辞透露这个消息。

双语例句

• I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
  我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
• The convalescent child penned up in the house was yearning to go out and play with his brothers.
  那个关在屋里养病的孩子渴望出去与兄弟一起玩耍。
• When all the cattle were safely penned up, the farmer could stop work for the day.
  当所有的牛都安全地关进了栏中，这农民就可以结束了一天的工作。
• I penned a few words to father today.
  今天，我给父亲写了一封短信。
• The shepherd has penned up the sheep in the four acre field.
  牧羊人把羊群围在那块四英亩的土地上。
• She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
  她觉得做家庭主妇很受束缚。
• The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day
  山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
• The whole family were penned up in one room for a month.
  整个一家人在一间房间被关了一个月。
• She penned a few words of thanks.
  她写了几句致谢的话。
• Penned in by whitewashed walls and mandarin groves, visitors find themselves in a feudal labyrinth.
  在白灰墙和桔树林的环绕下，参观者恍若置身于封建王朝的迷宫中。