thatch

英 [θætʃ]

美 [θætʃ]

n.  (作为屋顶材料的)茅草，稻草，芦苇; 茅草屋顶; 草屋顶; 浓密的头发
v.  用茅草盖屋顶

现在分词：thatching　过去分词：thatched　复数：thatches　第三人称单数：thatches　过去式：thatched　

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Collins.1 / BNC.19178 / COCA.20118

牛津词典

noun

• （作为屋顶材料的）茅草，稻草，芦苇；茅草屋顶；草屋顶
  dried straw , reeds , etc. used for making a roof; a roof made of this material
  1. a roof made of thatch
     茅草屋顶
  2. The thatch was badly damaged in the storm.
     茅草屋顶在暴风雨中遭到严重破坏。
• 浓密的头发
  thick hair on sb's head

verb

• 用茅草盖屋顶
  to cover the roof of a building with thatch

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 茅草屋顶;稻草屋顶;芦苇屋顶
  Athatchor athatch roofis a roof made from straw or reeds.
  1. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch.
     他们将住在一所新苫顶的绿门小房子里。
• N-UNCOUNT (用来盖屋顶的)茅草,稻草，芦苇
  Thatchis straw or reeds used to make a roof.
  1. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer.
     茅草料天生冬暖夏凉。
• N-SING (尤指浓密蓬乱的)头发
  You can refer to someone's hair as theirthatch ofhair, especially when it is very thick and untidy.
  1. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.
     特迪用自己的粗手指头捋了一下浓密蓬乱的头发。

英英释义

noun

• a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
  Synonym:thatched roof
• hair resembling thatched roofing material
• plant stalks used as roofing material

verb

• cover with thatch
  1. thatch the roofs

双语例句

• A thatch is wind-proof, frost-proof and good to look at.
  茅草屋顶既防风防霜又很好看。
• After a while though, they begin to replace the thatch with wooden shingles, because wood was so plentiful.
  尽管过了一段时间以后，他们开始用木质瓦重建屋顶，因为木材非常多。
• They topped off the hut with a straw thatch.
  他们给小屋盖上茅草屋顶。
• Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full.
  就在这间寝室里，就在茅屋再下几平方英尺的地方，她看见窗外没有尽头的凄风、苦雨、飞雪，看见无数的灿烂夕阳，看见一个又一个圆月。
• They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch.
  他们将住在一所新苫顶的绿门小房子里。
• Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
  苔丝一个人留下来，同弟弟和妹妹呆在一起，就先拿着那本算命的书走到屋外，把它塞进茅草屋顶里。
• To reach the event, buses and cars carrying Obama and reporters drove over uneven and unpaved d roads, chugging by tiny green farms with thatch huts that had mud or tin roofs.
  为了到达这个组织，巴士和轿车载着奥巴马和记者驶过崎岖不平的道路，在汽车的隆隆声中穿过小片碧绿的田地，地里有茅草盖的房子，屋顶是泥浆或者锡铁做的。
• The best quality roofing thatch is required.
  需要最好的盖屋顶的茅草。
• They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.
  他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
• After a while ago, they begin to replace the thatch with woodened shingles because wood was so plentiful.
  一段时间以后，他们开始用木头的屋顶板来代替茅草屋顶。