| 单词 | birch |
| 释义 | birchPlants birch /bɜːtʃ $ bɜːrtʃ/ noun 1. [countableC, uncountableU]HBP a tree with smooth bark (=outer covering) and thin branches, or the wood from this tree 桦树；桦木 2. the birch British EnglishBrEPUNISH the practice of hitting people with birch sticks as an official punishment 用桦条笞打，鞭笞 → silver birchExamples from the Corpus birch• All I remember is the wrenching loss as l watched the last birch disappear. l have relived it again and again.• Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.• An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.• I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days!• The birch leaves were delicately pale, almost lemon-colored.• These barn sills enclose thick white birch, ash, and maple trees.• I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.• Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me. Old English birce, beorc |
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