• adj. 稠密的；浓厚的；愚钝的

来自PIE*dens, 厚的。

dense (adj.)

early 15c., from Middle French dense and directly from Latin densus "thick, crowded; cloudy," perhaps from PIE root *dens- "dense, thick" (cognates: Greek dasus "hairy, shaggy"). Sense of "stupid" is first recorded 1822.

1. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.

滚滚浓烟盘旋翻腾，恶臭味呛得她喘不过气来。

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2. His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.

他的散文文笔有力、内容庞杂，有时几近晦涩。

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3. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.

他们花了36个小时穿过茂密的莫桑比克丛林。

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4. Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.

2,000万年前，爱达荷州到处都是茂密的原始森林。

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5. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest.

布加勒斯特的所在地过去曾是一大片茂密的森林。

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