| 例句 |
hedgenoun a physical object that blocks the waythe messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards barricade, barrier, fence, wall bar, pale, palingblock, chain, clog, crimp, deterrent, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, inhibition, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, roadblock, stop, stumbling block, trammelfetter, hobble, manacle, shackle(s)constraint, curb, restraint, snagbuffer, bulwark, bumper, cushion, dam, fender, pad, rampart door, doorway, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, gate, portalbreak, gap, pass to avoid giving a definite answer or positionkept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter equivocate, fudge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hem and haw, straddle the fence to close or shut in by or as if by barriersthe prison was hedged by a high stone wall box (in), cage, closet, coop (up), corral, encage, encase, enclose(also inclose), envelop, fence (in), hem (in), house, immure, include, mew (up), pen, wall (in) bound, circumscribe, confine, contain, limit, restrictencircle, encompass, enfold, enframe, enlace, frame, ring, surroundarmor, cocoon, encapsulate, encapsule, encyst, ensheathe, ensphere, enwomb before the 12th century |