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

• 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。
• Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Change in life-form composition indicated that perennial herbage and scrubby plants were severely affected, but annual herb and semi-shrub species occured on all dune types.
  从植物的生活型来看，多年生草本和灌木类植物受沙丘类型的影响最大，而一年生草本和半灌木可存活于不同沙丘类型。
• 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。