penned

英 [pend]

美 [pend]

v.  写; (把…)关起来，圈起来
pen的过去分词和过去式

过去式：penned　

COCA.41989

柯林斯词典

• See also:fountain pen
• VERB 写；书写
  If someonepensa letter, article, or book, they write it.
  1. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning...
     我真的打算今天一大早给你写这封信的。
  2. She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
     她给他的私人秘书写了一份简短的备忘录。
• See also:...a holding pen for sheep...He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.playpen
• VERB 把…关起来；把…圈起来
  If people or animalsare pennedsomewhere orare penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
  1. ...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
     将牛群赶回家，这样就能挤奶并将其关进牛棚过夜
  2. The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day...
     山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
  3. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
     我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
• 监狱
  People sometimes saythe pento refer to a prison.
• PHRASE 动笔；下笔
  If youput pen to paper, you write something.
  1. Whenever he put pen to paper he was at a loss for the right words to break the news.
     他每次一提笔就不知道如何措辞透露这个消息。

双语例句

• When all the cattle were safely penned up, the farmer could stop work for the day.
  当所有的牛都安全地关进了栏中，这农民就可以结束了一天的工作。
• She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
  她给他的私人秘书写了一份简短的备忘录。
• Johnnie Boden penned a letter that went out to selected customers last week who had stopped buying from him.
  约翰尼•波登最近写了一封信，有选择地发给一些顾客：他们都是已经停止向其购物的人。
• He penned a letter to the local paper.
  他给当地报纸写了一封信。
• Cosette, utterly overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of lines to Marius.
  珂赛特被这一意外的决定搞得心烦意乱，赶忙写了两行字给马吕斯。
• The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day
  山羊被关进圈里，每天都得铡草运料。
• We penned the sheep in for the night.
  我们用围栏把羊关起来过夜。
• Penned in by whitewashed walls and mandarin groves, visitors find themselves in a feudal labyrinth.
  在白灰墙和桔树林的环绕下，参观者恍若置身于封建王朝的迷宫中。
• The whole family were penned up in one room for a month.
  整个一家人在一间房间被关了一个月。
• Unused to living in so small a house, she felt penned up.
  不习惯于住在那麽小的房子里，她感到了拘束。