| 词组 | wood, woods |
| 释义 | wood, woods Both wood and its plural woods are used to refer to a forested area. The singular wood usually denotes a delineated area of medium size, larger than a grove and smaller than a forest: • Walking the other day in an old hemlock wood — John Burroughs, Wake-Robin, 1871 • ... a cornfield, a field of oats, a wood —John Bart-low Martin, Saturday Evening Post, 22 June 1957 • ... discovers her in a wood close at hand —Edgar Allan Poe, The Literati, 1850 The plural woods is also sometimes used with this meaning, in which case it is usually (though not always) construed as singular: • ... had moved out of a woods and onto a frozen road —James A. Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1953 • ... a woods where deer sometimes graze —John Mariani, Town & Country, June 1981 • The path to the marsh leads through a woods —John P. Wiley, Jr., Smithsonian, September 1983 • Whose woods these are I think I know.... The woods are lovely, dark and deep—Robert Frost, New Hampshire, 1923 More commonly, the plural woods refers to the forest generally, without the suggestion of a delineated area that is implicit in the singular wood: • ... went back to the woods without saying a word ... and that was the last the women saw of them for a week —Conrad Richter, The Trees, 1940 When used in this way, woods is construed as plural: • The woods decay, the woods decay and fall —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus," 1860 |
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