forest
noun /ˈfɒrɪst/
/ˈfɔːrɪst/
Idioms - enlarge image
森林;林区 - a tropical/pine forest
热带/松林 - One careless match can start a forest fire.
漫不经心地扔一根火柴就有可能引发一场森林火灾。 - Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year.
每年都有几千公顷的森林遭到破坏。 - the forest floor/canopy
森林地面/树冠
Topics Geographya2- Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
森林正被开垦成新的耕地。 - He warned her never to enter the forest at night.
他警告她千万不要在夜间到森林里去。 - Much of Europe was once covered in forest.
欧洲的大部份地区曾经遍布着森林。 - They got lost in the forest.
他们在森林里迷了路。 - Thick forest stretched as far as the eye could see.
茂密的森林一眼望不到边。 - We slashed our way through the dense forest.
我们在密林中砍出一条路来。 - a large stretch of virgin forest
一大片原始林 - The species is found in both coniferous and deciduous forests.
针叶林和落叶林里均可见此物种。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dense
- thick
- impenetrable
- …
- stretch
- tract
- plant
- clear
- cut down
- …
- stretch
- surround
- tree
- floor
- canopy
- …
- in a/the forest
- through a/the forest
- the edge of the forest
- the heart of the forest
- the middle of the forest
- …
- a tropical/pine forest
- [countable] forest (of something) a mass of tall narrow objects that are close together
(森林似的)一丛,一片 - a forest of cranes on the skyline
地平线上的起重机森林
- a forest of cranes on the skyline
词源Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva) , literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’.
Idioms
not see the forest for the trees (North American English)
(British English not see the wood for the trees)
- to not see or understand the main point about something, because you are paying too much attention to small details
见树不见林