- [countable]
a plant that grows thickly with several hard stems coming up from the root 灌木 a rose/holly bush 玫瑰/冬青灌木 - in the bushes
She was hiding in the bushes at the side of the lane. 她躲藏在道边的灌木丛中。
Extra ExamplesTopics Plants and treesb2a large clump of rose bushes 一大片蔷薇花丛 to prune the rose bushes 修剪蔷薇花丛
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rose
- thorn
- etc.
- …
- clump
- plant
- prune
- trim
- …
- grow
- among the bushes
- in the bushes
- bushes and trees
- trees and bushes
- [countable]
a thing that looks like a bush, especially an area of thick hair or fur 灌木状的东西（尤指浓密的毛发或皮毛） - (often the bush)[uncountable]
an area of wild land that has not been cleared, especially in Africa and Australia; in New Zealand an area where the forest has not been cleared （尤指非洲和澳大利亚的）荒野；（新西兰未被砍伐的）林区 Children are taught from an early age how to survive in the bush. 孩子们从小就学习在荒野中求生的方法。 They went out into the bush. 他们远赴丛林。 hills that have become a wasteland after the removal of native bush 天然丛林清除后成为不毛之地的山岭
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dense
- thick
- African
- …
- fire
- meat
- in the bush
- into the bush
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bos, bosc, variants of bois ‘wood’, reinforced by Old Norse buski, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch. The sense ‘uncultivated country’ is probably directly from Dutch bos.
Idioms
beat about the bush (British English)
(North American English beat around the bush)
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- (saying)
it is better to keep something that you already have than to risk losing it by trying to get much more 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林（满足于现有的总比因过分追求而失去一切好）