bracken

IPA/ˈbrækən/
KK[brˈækən]IPA/ˈbrækən/

bracken — 名詞

1. a tall wild fern with large, soft leaves that spreads in thick patches over hill

1.名詞C1
釋義

蕨類；歐洲蕨

生長在山坡與林地的大型野生蕨類

a tall wild fern with large, soft leaves that spreads in thick patches over hills, woods, and open land, turning brown in autumn

例句

Thick bracken covered the hillside, hiding the narrow path to the lake.

茂密的蕨類覆蓋了山坡，遮住了通往湖邊的小徑。

uncountable mass noun: 'thick bracken covered the hillside'

Maeve pushed through the tall bracken to reach the old stone wall.

Maeve 撥開高高的蕨類，走向那道古老的石牆。

collocation: push through the bracken

常見搭配
  • thick bracken
  • tall bracken
  • cut back the bracken
  • a carpet of bracken
同義詞
  • fern

    the general category; bracken is one large, common, fast-spreading wild kind of fern

  • brake

    an old or literary word for an area thickly covered with bracken or rough ferns

用法筆記

Usually uncountable: treat the plant as a mass ('the bracken', 'through bracken'), not 'a bracken' or 'brackens'. The subject or object is typically the plant covering an area of land.

常見錯誤

We walked through the brackens.
We walked through the bracken.
bracken is uncountable, so it has no normal plural form.

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • a clump of bracken
  • a carpet of bracken

常用片語

  • cut back the bracken
  • covered in bracken

介系詞搭配

  • through the bracken
  • in the bracken
  • under the bracken