| 单词 | thatch |
| 释义 | thatch (θætʃ ) Word forms: thatches 1. countable noun A thatch or a thatch roof is a roof made from straw or reeds. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch. 2. uncountable noun Thatch is straw or reeds used to make a roof. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer. 3. singular noun You can refer to someone's hair as their thatch of hair, especially when it is very thick and untidy. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair. [+ of] Collocations: thatch house Water-sprinklers play on the roses and other country garden flowers surrounding his stone and thatch house. Times, Sunday Times They build small thatch houses for sleeping and use the trunks of breadfruit trees for boat-building. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They set up villages -- scattered groups of thatch houses and cultivated gardens -- where conditions favored farming. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Police later burned nearby thatch houses in an attempt to flush him with smoke. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite extensive construction of new housing, in poorer regions some farm families still lived in traditional dwellings, such as mud-brick and thatch houses or, in some regions, cave houses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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