tumbleweed

noun

1. 风滚草（生长于北美和澳洲沙漠地区，秋季在地面处折落，随风像球一样到处滚动）
   a plant that grows like a bush in the desert areas of N America and Australia. In the autumn/fall, it breaks off just above the ground and is blown around like a ball by the wind.

1. （生长于北美沙漠地区的）风滚草
   Tumbleweed is a plant that grows in desert areas in North America. It breaks off from its roots at the end of its life and then blows around on the ground.

1. A tumbleweed rolled by my feet and I was reminded that I was in the middle of the desert.
   一丛风滚草擦过我的脚边，提醒我已经置身于沙漠之中。
2. Mosul reminded Eugene of a movie, he said: an old western in which the bad guys take over some small town, and all the townsfolk hide indoors and tumbleweed blows across the screen.
   在摩苏尔的经历让尤金想起了一部电影，那是个很老的西部片，他说，坏人们占据了小镇，所有的居民都躲在屋里，关门闭户，银幕上只有大风卷着草团吹过。
3. A player cannot determine whether a long blade of grass, a twig, a tumbleweed or some similar natural object interfering with his swing through the green is loose or is attached to its roots.
   一名球员不能决定妨碍到他在果岭通道上挥杆时的一叶绿草、一个小枝、一棵风滚草或者其他相似的自然物体是否是松动的或者是连着根附着的。
4. Its tip flicked twice around the tumbleweed, jerked it off the ground and back to the feed opening in the imitation tree stump within which the rest of the slurp was concealed.
   舌尖绕着风滚草圈了两圈，然后猛得将其拉起来，往模仿树残桩里的进食口拖去，啜食者正是隐藏了里面。

noun

1. bushy plant of western United States

   Synonym:    Amaranthus albusAmaranthus graecizans

2. bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds

   Synonym:    winged pigweedCycloloma atriplicifolium

3. prickly bushy Eurasian plant

   Synonym:    Russian thistleRussian tumbleweedRussian cactusSalsola kali tenuifolia

4. any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass