fen

/fen/ (bre, ipa) · [fˈɛn] /fen/ (ame, ipa) · [fˈɛn] /ˈfen/ (ame, mw)

fen — 名詞

  • fensingular
  • fensplural

1. a flat stretch of ground in a low-lying area where the soil stays wet for most o

1.名詞B2
釋義

沼澤

英格蘭東部低窪潮溼的地帶

a flat stretch of ground in a low-lying area where the soil stays wet for most of the year, covered with grasses and peat-forming plants; this type of land is common in parts of eastern England.

例句

The farmer drained the fen to create more land for growing wheat.

農夫排乾沼澤，以便開墾更多土地來種植小麥。

collocation: drain a fen

Wild birds nest among the reeds that grow in the fen every spring.

每年春天，野鳥會在沼澤裡的蘆葦叢中築巢。

同義詞
  • marsh

    similar but often refers to land near salt water or rivers; fen is typically inland and fed by groundwater

  • bog

    more acidic than fen, with different plant life such as sphagnum moss

  • swamp

    usually has trees or woody plants and deeper standing water than a fen

  • wetland

    the general category that includes fens, marshes, bogs, and swamps

反義詞
  • high ground

    dry land at a higher elevation, the opposite of low-lying fen

  • desert

    extremely dry land in contrast to the waterlogged conditions of a fen

用法筆記

Often capitalised as 'the Fens' when referring to the large area of fenland in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire in eastern England.

常見錯誤

❌The fen is a type of forest with many trees.
✅The fen is a type of wetland with grasses, reeds, and peaty soil.
💡A fen is an open, wet landscape, not a wooded area.
❌We walked through a fen and got sand in our shoes.
✅We walked through a fen and our shoes sank into the wet mud.
💡Fen soil is wet and peaty, not sandy or dry.

2. a unit of money formerly used in China, worth one hundredth of one yuan, and sti

2.名詞B2
釋義

分

中國貨幣單位，一百分等於一元

a unit of money formerly used in China, worth one hundredth of one yuan, and still used in official pricing of some goods and services.

例句

A bowl of noodles cost only a few fen in the 1980s.

在1980年代，一碗麵只要幾分錢。

100 fen = 1 yuan

When travelling in China it is rare to see coins worth just one fen.

在中國旅行時，很少見到價值僅一分的硬幣。

用法筆記

No longer used as a physical coin in everyday transactions; prices are typically rounded to the nearest jiao (equivalent to 10 fen). The plural is the same as the singular (five fen, not five fens).

常見錯誤

❌I paid fifty fens for a bottle of water.
✅I paid fifty fen for a bottle of water.
💡Fen does not add an -s in the plural.
❌The bus fare was ten dollars in Chinese money.
✅The bus fare was one yuan, or one hundred fen.
💡Fen is a subdivision of the yuan, not a synonym for Chinese money.