Shrub

(noun.) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems.

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• The three were walking along the gravel slowly, and Sir James, turning aside to whip a shrub, said he had heard something of that sort. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She beckoned the Jew towards her, as she reached down the shrub-bottle from its niche, and whispered: 'Child, or woman? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Steppe-like conditions, conditions of pasture and shrub, were bringing with them vast herds of wild horse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A little--not to put too fine a point upon it--drop of shrub? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After some little search, I found a folded paperlodged on the lower branch of a shrub; I seized and brought it direct to Dr. John. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There is the box shrub which gives us boxwood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And then not until they reach that shrub, Robert Jordan pointed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Then we turned up a flower and shrub lined concrete driveway, and stopped by a home, capacious and modern. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But first of all,' said Miss Abbey, '--did you ever taste shrub, child? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You drank the shrub, and now you pretend to have broken the bottle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But before the shrub and water was sipped out, Miss Abbey bethought herself that she would like to keep a copy of the paper by her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was hardly a tree or a shrub any where. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Beyond this charmed circle, for miles on every side, stretches a weary desert of sand and gravel, which produces a gray bunchy shrub like sage-brush. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It deals with the explanation of earthquakes, tides, the virtues of plants, the fierce instincts of wil d animals, every species of stone, shrub, and reptile. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Only the music of the angels it knew once could charm its shrubs and flowers to life again and restore its vanished beauty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Methusaleh, the pear-tree, stood at the further end of this walk, near my seat: he rose up, dim and gray, above the lower shrubs round him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• That was the odor of the cactus flowers, mimosa and the sea-grape shrubs. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It was a fine frosty afternoon; the winter sun, already setting, gleamed pale on the tops of the garden-shrubs in the allée défendue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Yes; there scarce stirred a breezeand that heavy tree was convulsed, whilst the feathery shrubs stood still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They could see nothing; the high shrubs of the garden formed a leafy screen between them and the road. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A gloomy wood, according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Their path to the front led them close to a little side window, whence the rays of candles streamed across the shrubs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• On Christmas Eve he had reappeared at The Shrubs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There we found numbers of huge milk-giving shrubs--that strange plant which serves in great part as food and drink for the wild hordes of green men. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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