thatch

noun

1. （作为屋顶材料的）茅草，稻草，芦苇；茅草屋顶；草屋顶
   dried straw , reeds , etc. used for making a roof; a roof made of this material
   1. a roof made of thatch
      茅草屋顶
   2. The thatch was badly damaged in the storm.
      茅草屋顶在暴风雨中遭到严重破坏。
2. 浓密的头发
   thick hair on sb's head

verb

1. 用茅草盖屋顶
   to cover the roof of a building with thatch

1. N-COUNT 茅草屋顶;稻草屋顶;芦苇屋顶
   A thatch or a thatch roof is a roof made from straw or reeds.
   1. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch.
      他们将住在一所新苫顶的绿门小房子里。
2. N-UNCOUNT (用来盖屋顶的)茅草,稻草，芦苇
   Thatch is straw or reeds used to make a roof.
   1. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer.
      茅草料天生冬暖夏凉。
3. N-SING (尤指浓密蓬乱的)头发
   You can refer to someone's hair as their thatch of hair, especially when it is very thick and untidy.
   1. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.
      特迪用自己的粗手指头捋了一下浓密蓬乱的头发。

1. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch.
   他们将住在一所新苫顶的绿门小房子里。
2. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer.
   茅草料天生冬暖夏凉。
3. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.
   特迪用自己的粗手指头捋了一下浓密蓬乱的头发。
4. They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.
   他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
5. After years of teasing his older brother about his hair loss, Prince Harry has had to face some uncomfortable truths about his own thinning thatch.
   在开了哥哥脱发的玩笑多年之后，英国哈里王子不得不面对自己毛发日益稀少的不幸事实。
6. When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground.
   他们走过斯图尔堡小镇的时候，小镇内覆盖着褐色厚茅草的茅屋还在静静地沉睡着，他们走到了一块更高的地方。
7. Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
   苔丝一个人留下来，同弟弟和妹妹呆在一起，就先拿着那本算命的书走到屋外，把它塞进茅草屋顶里。
8. Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full.
   就在这间寝室里，就在茅屋再下几平方英尺的地方，她看见窗外没有尽头的凄风、苦雨、飞雪，看见无数的灿烂夕阳，看见一个又一个圆月。
9. I forgot to tell the men to thatch them. I expect most of my wheat will be destroyed in this rain.
   我忘记对他们说了。我估计我的大部分麦子都让这场雨给毁了。
10. After a while though, they begin to replace the thatch with wooden shingles, because wood was so plentiful.
    尽管过了一段时间以后，他们开始用木质瓦重建屋顶，因为木材非常多。
11. Thatch can be described as the layer of organic residue located immediately between the sward and the soil surface.
    土壤腐殖质层可被定义为在草皮与土壤表面之间的一层有机残留物。
12. The swallow oft beneath my thatch.
    燕子将常驻在我的屋檐下。
13. A distant flash, a low rumble, and large drops of rain spattered on the thatch above him.
    远远一道电光，一声低沉的雷声，大点的雨滴滴哒哒打到他头上的茅屋顶上。
14. Don't place high wattage security lights near the thatch.
    不要在靠近茅草屋顶的地方安装高瓦数灯泡。
15. His lips trembled a little, so that the rough thatch of brown hair which covered them was visibly agitated.
    他的嘴唇有点发抖，因此，他嘴上那丛乱棕似的胡子也在明显地抖动。
16. A thatch is wind-proof, frost-proof and good to look at.
    茅草屋顶既防风防霜又很好看。
17. As a result, thatch huts have been replaced by homes with solid walls, water pumps have been installed and villagers have practically halted seasonal work in other locales.
    于是，砖瓦房取代了茅草屋，村里安装了抽水机，村民们实际上已经停止了在其它地方的季节性打工。
18. Some of the thatch on the barn needs replacing.
    谷仓顶上有些茅草需要更换了。
19. Many property owners choose thatch not only for its beauty but because they know it will keep them cool in summer and warm in winter.
    许多房主选择茅草屋顶不仅是为了美观，而且还因为他们知道茅草能使他们冬暖夏凉。
20. Deforested lands are utilized for the growth of building materials, including palm leaves for thatch and bamboo for furnishings.
    森林被砍伐的土地被用来种植建筑用的材料，包括用来盖屋顶的棕榈树叶和家居装修用的竹子。
21. After a while ago, they begin to replace the thatch with woodened shingles because wood was so plentiful.
    一段时间以后，他们开始用木头的屋顶板来代替茅草屋顶。
22. Packed dirt paths weave through clusters of small houses with tin roofs and outdoor latrines. Cows, goats and chickens wander calmly through yards near thatch sheds.
    肮脏的小路两侧杂乱地分布着一户户铁皮屋顶的小房子，厕所在户外，牛、羊、鸡等在茅草舍棚周围的院落里怡然自得地随处游走。
23. They topped off the hut with a straw thatch.
    他们给小屋盖上茅草屋顶。
24. Although thatch has always been used for cottage and farm buildings, it was once used for castles and churches, too.
    虽然茅草一直用于盖村舍和农场建筑物，也曾一度用于建筑城堡和教堂。
25. Nervously he is fumbling through the sexy thatch again and again.
    他总是神经质地用手一次次抓弄着自己性感而乱蓬蓬的头发。
26. If you're not in control of the thatch production in your surfaces, you lose all of that.
    如果你不能控制好果岭表层的腐殖质层（枯草层），你会失去所有的一切。
27. In fact, if we look at developing countries, over half the world lives under thatch, but they all do it in different ways.
    事实上如果我们看看发展国家，世界半数以上的人口居住在茅草屋顶下，但他们的做法则不同。
28. To reach the event, buses and cars carrying Obama and reporters drove over uneven and unpaved d roads, chugging by tiny green farms with thatch huts that had mud or tin roofs.
    为了到达这个组织，巴士和轿车载着奥巴马和记者驶过崎岖不平的道路，在汽车的隆隆声中穿过小片碧绿的田地，地里有茅草盖的房子，屋顶是泥浆或者锡铁做的。
29. A young maid marry to an old man is like a new house thatch with old straw.
    少女嫁老夫，旧茅苫新屋。
30. The best quality roofing thatch is required.
    需要最好的盖屋顶的茅草。

noun

1. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)

   Synonym:    thatched roof

2. hair resembling thatched roofing material

3. plant stalks used as roofing material

verb

1. cover with thatch
   1. thatch the roofs