| 单词 | dense |
| 释义 | dense (dens ) Word forms: denser , densest 1. adjective B2 Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest. Its fur is short, dense and silky. They thrust their way through the dense crowd. densely adverb [usually ADVERB -ed] B2 Java is a densely populated island. The fire struck a densely wooded area of Oakland. 2. adjective B2 Dense fog or smoke is difficult to see through because it is very heavy and dark. A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air. 3. adjective B2 In science, a dense substance is very heavy in relation to its volume. [technical] ...a small dense star. 4. graded adjective If you describe writing or a film as dense, you mean that it is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information and ideas. [disapproval] His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity. Synonyms: obscure, deep, complex, profound 5. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you say that someone is dense, you mean that you think they are stupid and that they take a long time to understand simple things. [informal] He's not a bad man, just a bit dense. Synonyms: stupid [informal], slow, thick, dull Collocations: dense foliage Ivy is the obvious choice, its triffid-like tendrils quickly blanketing surfaces with dense foliage and bringing an instant gothic antiquity. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The clarity and elegance of his great white room is spiced with a tantalising vista of dense foliage outside a large picture window. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The contemporary uncluttered interiors would not look out of place in our islands despite their lack of dappled sunshine and dense foliage. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In the dense foliage you cannot see beyond a few feet. Times, Sunday Times (2008) As a result, the countryside developed into predominantly dense forest that was cleared when humans began to use the land for agriculture. Times, Sunday Times So why not jump into a jeep for a safari of the island, from the breathtaking coastal roads to the dense forest in the hinterland. The Sun Minutes later the plane crashed, bursting into flames after tearing through a patch of dense forest and slamming into a termite hill. Times, Sunday Times Fears are growing that she got lost in dense forest while walking back to her hostel alone. The Sun They drove into the dense forest until they arrived at a junction. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, the bow shocks are thought to sweep up or entrain dense gas from the surrounding cloud to form the bipolar outflow. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It consists of regions of dense gas and dust. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Collision-induced spectra have been observed in nearly all dense gases, and also in many liquids and solids. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These can accurately describe the properties of dense gases, because they include the volume of the molecules. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have the highest potential for eco-living due to local facilities, public transport links, dense housing and shared public resources. Times, Sunday Times In the narrow valley they feared a gust of wind could send the fire cascading down through a neighbourhood of hobby farms and into a dense housing development. Globe and Mail Dense housing, severe seasonal flooding and the choking of drains with uncollected solid waste exacerbate the problem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was selected and became involved in the pioneering of techniques for parachuting into dense jungle. Times, Sunday Times Small talk over, we troop off through dense jungle, past wild orchids, to a precarious hillside hide. Times, Sunday Times Left with just four troops, you have to shuffle into the dense jungle to avoid a repeat. The Sun The area has the highest concentration of wild leopards in the world, in a vast area of dense jungle, open savanna and crocodile-infested marshes. Times, Sunday Times There was only one way to rescue the survivors: recruit ten volunteers, including two medics, to parachute into the dense jungle and extract the survivors. Christianity Today Anchored by a metal framework and covered with waterproof sheeting and absorbent material, the 'walls' support a dense layer of uniform greenery. Times, Sunday Times This species builds open burrows, lined with a dense layer of silk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The leaflets are covered with a dense layer of silver hairs, angled forward at 70-80. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Alternatively, planetesimals can form in a very dense layer of dust grains that undergoes a collective gravitational instability in the mid-plane of a protoplanetary disk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The combined mineral load of the ocean reacts with corroding metals and surrounding sediments to form a dense layer around the metal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It prefers soft substrates and surrounds its shell in a dense mass of byssus. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The stipe base features a dense mass of whitish rhizomorphs embedded with needles and other forest debris. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The resulting air pollution was trapped by the inversion layer formed by the dense mass of cold air. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The chromosomal material in the nucleus of mitotically dividing oogonia shows as a dense mass surrounded by vesicles or double membranes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The large flower panicles do not open but remain inside their leaf sheaths forming a dense mass. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To beef this up, add a sarking board over the rafters before you put on the battens, using a dense material such as cement board. Times,Sunday Times Shake out dense material to let in air and mix dry stems with soft green leaves as you refill. The Sun According to the group, the album contains by far the band's most ambitious and dense material yet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nylon strings are made of a softer, less dense material and are under less tension than steel strings (about 50% less). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, it can replace lead as a dense material in fishing sinkers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He squashed all opposition with ruthless efficiency; he built up a dense network of spies and inflicted crushing financial penalties on his subjects. Times, Sunday Times This gives an extremely dense network of accurate ground points that can be triangulated to give highly detailed elevation grids. Times, Sunday Times Yet as he goes on to show with devastatingly forensic honesty, this was a normality built on a dense network of lies. Times, Sunday Times Normality was built on a dense network of lies. Times, Sunday Times A dense network of links was rapidly created. Times, Sunday Times A change in the dielectric constant indicates a dense object behind the wall, normally a framing stud. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Larger and denser objects vibrate more slowly (and have lower pitch) than smaller and less dense objects. Christianity Today Millimetre-wave energy detectors can pick up concealed dense objects because these emit heat energy at a different rate from the human body. Times, Sunday Times Instead, they could be cold, dark, dense objects with hard surfaces. Smithsonian Mag Because less dense objects rise in relation to denser objects, the area being heated becomes a broad dome (see isostasy). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The government has little control over great swathes of the country, much of it dense rainforest. Times, Sunday Times The journey involves hiking through dense rainforest, tiptoeing across torrents and sleeping in remote jungle villages. Times, Sunday Times At night, however, they come alive, actively hunting in the dense rainforest—that's when researchers conduct their surveys. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lack of roads and dense rainforest are making access to remote villages difficult for health workers, who are also confronted by hostility and suspicion. Times, Sunday Times I teetered on a narrow metal bridge gently swaying 170ft above dense rainforest - from this height, it resembled gigantic florets of broccoli. Times, Sunday Times He lost his digital camera as he tried to escape from the dense scrub. Times, Sunday Times The dormouse lives in deciduous woodland, hedgerows and dense scrub, and spends most of the spring and summer up in the branches eating buds, hazelnuts, berries and insects. Times, Sunday Times Higher up, holm oaks and dense scrub conceal wild boar and romanesque chapels, before topping out to rocky uplands where little has changed since the troubadours. Times, Sunday Times Hiding in dense scrub land and with little food they made their way 15 km to the neck. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its natural habitats are tropical mangrove forests and cassurina woodland and dense scrub. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conifers create dense shade and inhibit the growth of bluebells, wood anemones and other wildlife found in deciduous woodland. Times, Sunday Times They like semi-shade, ideally, as dense shade can reduce flowering. Times, Sunday Times That's the trick, then, for spring bulbs: good spring light and no smothering or dense shade, moisture during the growing season and a dryish, but not desiccating, summer season. Times, Sunday Times Its large leaves create dense shade, preventing other species from germinating or growing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tree canopy casts dense shade, and carpets the ground with dense leaf litter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Berberis darwinii is a small, dense shrub, spiny of leaf and stem, like an angry little holly. Times, Sunday Times (2013) This is a good dense shrub rose with beautiful single pink blooms and light green foliage. Times, Sunday Times (2013) We forced our way through some hobblebush and thickets of a dense shrub with pointed leaves. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE (2002) Fire and dense smoke forced the airport to be closed for most of the day. Times,Sunday Times The highway was cut off by dense smoke: there was no returning to their holiday home. Times,Sunday Times Although it did not explode, its kinetic energy and the unspent fuel created dense smoke and started a fierce fire that quickly raged out of control. Times, Sunday Times He fought his way into the building, climbing the stairs to her floor in dense smoke. Times, Sunday Times Before that, the burning foam and rexine would have released cyanide, carbon monoxide and dense smoke, causing passengers to faint. Outlook India From the pylon nearest our home a dense tangle of tiny wires sprouts off in countless directions siphoning off power from the transmission lines. Times, Sunday Times A dense tangle of natural plants for spawning has the additional advantage of harboring protists on which the fry feed initially. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But there were also treacherously slippery descents through dense tangles of thorns and branches. Times,Sunday Times During the day, it rests 5 to 12 meters above the ground in a dense tangle of creepers or in the hollow of a tree, rarely on an exposed branch. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They forage either singularly or in pairs in dense tangles of vines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its dense texture and intense flavour goes particularly well with eggs, creamy sauces and potatoes. Times, Sunday Times It's perfect, though, for meatballs if it's mixed with lots of breadcrumbs soaked in creamy milk to lighten the dense texture. Times, Sunday Times Beluga lentils have a dense texture and earthy flavour, making them also good in salads, sauces and stuffings. Times, Sunday Times Really yummy, slightly chewy with a smooth, dense texture, a caramel toffee flavour and 224kcal per bar. The Sun While normal pasta can lead to carb overload, healthier wholewheat pasta can have a dense texture that's less enjoyable to eat. The Sun The surveyor looked in the dense thicket of rhododendron that screened the garden from the road. Times, Sunday Times Raspberries form a dense thicket of a row in summer, and are planted close together with only 35cm-45cm (14in-18in) between each plant. Times, Sunday Times Her ideals are hedged in a dense thicket of ego. Times, Sunday Times It may suppress the growth of new stands of trees, especially when it becomes a dense thicket. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can spread and colonize an area to form a dense thicket. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If we drive on the same motorway in dense traffic and fog at 70mph we break no law but need our heads examined. Times, Sunday Times Some 20m will help establish a network of charging points in cities and other areas of dense traffic. Times, Sunday Times Time and again he darted off his wing to make golden metres in dense traffic. Times, Sunday Times The increasingly dense traffic on the railway created a problem since the railway line cut through the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Due to the dense traffic of the main line it was necessary to separate the traffic connecting to the private lines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Individuals roost in a variety of settings, which include unused buildings, caves, dense tree tops, crevices, large wells, and cliffs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dense tree coverage attracts tourists, who enjoy the view of clouds surrounding the peaks all year round. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dense trees fill the temple premises with peace and tranquility, and an eerie silence could be felt in the temple even during the day time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dense trees provide habitat for many birds, including screech owls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite their direct flight, rufous-bellied kookaburras are capable of very sharp twists and turns around the dense trees that form their habitat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They hadn't and now they seemed to lose interest altogether, returning to whatever it was that they had been doing in the dense undergrowth. The Sun I asked, pressing forward into the dense undergrowth. Times,Sunday Times Yet, having followed this story through its dense undergrowth of seventeenth-century social polity, moral propensity, and epistemological decorum, what are we left with? Christianity Today One hears them in blackthorn and gorse thickets, and in woods with dense undergrowth. Times, Sunday Times It lurches up to a height of 440m, over a 7km ride, through idyllic villages and dense undergrowth. The Sun It lives a skulking life, concealed in dense vegetation, often on marshy land. Times, Sunday Times Grasshopper warblers are mysterious, little-seen birds that spend most of their time in dense vegetation, often in marshy country. Times, Sunday Times Instead, residents should keep windows and doors closed, and clear their gardens of dense vegetation where foxes can shelter, the charity said. Times, Sunday Times Dense vegetation makes it almost impossible to spot them before they pounce. Times, Sunday Times Some birds prefer a box hidden in dense vegetation; others choose one with a clear line of flight. Times, Sunday Times Once there was a dense web of nuclear buildings across the country, divided into ten civil defence regions, with sub-regions and districts. Times, Sunday Times Pupation takes place outside of the mine on the midrib of a leaf of the host plant under the shelter of a dense web. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The specific details of the costumes and furnishings, like an orange and rosemary, but not a clove to stick in it, participate in a dense web of folklore connections. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, the astrocytes form a dense web of their plasma membrane extensions that fills the empty space generated by the dead or dying neuronal cells (a process called astrogliosis). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His technique was unlike that of any contemporary: unsystematically he used dense webs of light, fine, multidirectional hatching to create a tonal continuum embracing form, light, shadow, and air. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the roosts, usually in dense woods or reedbeds, the starlings give a spectacular performance. Times, Sunday Times A study has found that those growing in isolation or in less dense woods stand by far the best chance of defeating ash dieback. Times,Sunday Times I was desperate to run in the opposite direction from the bear, but we needed to go back through the dense woods to retrieve our ropes. Times, Sunday Times Large though they are, goshawks are notably elusive birds, staying mostly in dense woods, where they alternately take a few slow wingbeats, then glide, through the tree trunks. Times, Sunday Times The route winds northwestward through the dense woods, turning northeast for a jog past another nearby pond. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the dawn of time, when the universe was infinitely dense and infinitely hot, a little ball of everythingness, what was around it? Times, Sunday Times The universe started supremely ordered, as a single infinitely dense point. Times,Sunday Times Instead, it began with the explosive expansion of an infinitely dense 'singularity'. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 稠密的 Japanese: 密集した |
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