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单词 pen
释义
pen
(pen )
Word forms: pens , penning , penned
1. countable noun A1
A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink.
2.  See also ballpoint, felt-tip, fountain pen
3. verb
If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it. [formal]
I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning. [VERB noun to noun]
She penned a short memo to his private secretary. [VERB noun + to]
[Also VERB noun noun]
Synonyms: write (down), draft, compose, pencil  
4. countable noun
A pen is also a small area with a fence round it in which farm animals are kept for a short time.
...a holding pen for sheep.
He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.
Synonyms: enclosure, pound, fold, cage  
5.  See also playpen
6. verb [usually passive]
If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night. [be VERB-ed]
The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day. [be VERB-ed]
I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner. [V-ed up]
Synonyms: enclose, confine, hurdle, cage  
7. countable noun [usually singular, the NOUN]
People sometimes say the pen to refer to a prison. [US, informal]
8. countable noun
In football and rugby, a pen is a penalty. [British, informal]
Chelsea won 4-2 on pens.
Macleod kicked yet another pen before Wilson grabbed a try late on.
9. put pen to paper phrase [VERB inflects]
If you put pen to paper, you write something.
Whenever he put pen to paper he was at a loss for the right words to break the news.
Image of pen
Quotations:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword
Edward Bulwer-LyttonRichelieu
Idioms:
a pen pusher [mainly British] or a pencil pusher
someone who works in an office in contrast to more active kinds of work
Many of the men who now sit on company boards are pencil pushers with PhDs and MBAs from top schools, but lack operating experience in business.
Collocations:
laser pen
The surgeon held a small laser pen and traced each red line up and down my nose.
Times, Sunday Times
So he kept swimming until he saw a nearby ship, and signalled for help with his laser pen.
Times, Sunday Times
It comes down to the detailed squad meetings when, armed with a red laser pen, the coach highlights every little error.
Times, Sunday Times
The internet retailer also offered a 'military-grade powerful laser pen' for 99p, plus 1.99 postage, and a red laser pointer with a one-mile range for 2.89.
Times, Sunday Times
They used to love a laser pen, but now they've got it sussed.
Times, Sunday Times
pen a book
She will now pen a book on the economics of the criminal justice system - drawing heavily on her prison diary.
The Sun
A master in dubbing, the author has proved that she can also pen a book in a very descriptive manner.
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When he learned that the game was selling rapidly at his local retailer, he agreed to pen the book.
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Sick penned a book on the subject and sold the movie rights to it for a reported $300,000.
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Penning his books in the third-person, he uses allegory and symbolism to great effect.
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pen a column
I wonder if, as a result of their visit, one of those schoolkids will be penning this column in 60 years' time.
The Sun
After several years of penning the column, however, the term $25 and under became less literal and more suggestive of inexpensive.
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He also pens a column on their companion website.
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pen a novel
Self-publishing has never been easier, but first you need to pen a novel to put out there, which means a narrative that sustains at least 50,000 words.
Times, Sunday Times
But the writer's representative confirmed she had been penning the novel at the swanky hotel.
The Sun
But it wasn't until she fell ill with glandular fever that she finally penned the novel she had always dreamed about.
The Sun
While reporting for the university newspaper, her dream of becoming a writer was born, and after graduating she penned a novel while working as a chef on a cruise ship.
The Sun
pen a piece
Rose leaves no doubts about what was in the composer's mind when he penned the piece.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps he penned his piece while watching the goals go in!
Times, Sunday Times
In the intervening years since penning that piece, the loneliness of pastoring has not diminished.
Christianity Today
She plans to smoke him out with cold cuts while penning a piece for a weekend supplement on her trauma at the hands of this interloper.
Times, Sunday Times
pen a song
It explains why she penned the song she did.
Times, Sunday Times
As she recovered she undertook music therapy and penned some songs which ended up on the internet.
Times, Sunday Times
The duo then went into the hall and penned the song in 20 minutes.
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pen stroke
But no pen stroke will be able to address issues like labour shortages if they reach crisis proportions.
Globe and Mail
You could in theory curb poverty, with its entourage of associated diseases, at a pen stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
A few quick pen strokes and a lousy business plan can be made a winner, with costs to taxpayers becoming apparent only years later.
Times, Sunday Times
It has made applying lippy on the go a whole lot easier, letting you colour in your pout with only a few pen strokes.
The Sun
The numbers — actually prices — on our tally sheet go from 3 to 10 (most things cost 7, according to pen strokes in that column), but what's this?
Times, Sunday Times
sheep pen
One pilot, seen parachuting into a rocky field, was found hiding in a sheep pen.
Times, Sunday Times
The ferret was found later in a hay stack in a sheep pen, the report said.
canada.com
I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen.
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The out-buildings include 18th century farm buildings and a sheep pen dated 1868.
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Spectacular coastlines, brooding lakes mirroring the surrounding hills, bleak but dramatic moors, glacial valleys full of sheep penned within dry-stone walls.
Times, Sunday Times
wield a pen
But he yearns, at every studio presentation by his staff, to wield his pen and make his own mark.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet he wielded his pen more often against his erstwhile friends than his intractable enemies.
The Times Literary Supplement
In it, the female narrator can be found wielding a pen and scribbling her diary entries under the most dramatic and unlikely of circumstances.
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Translations:
Chinese: 书写笔, 撰写
Japanese: ペン, 書く手紙などを
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