Dense

(adj.) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; 'so dense he never understands anything I say to him'; 'never met anyone quite so dim'; 'although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick'- Thackeray; 'dumb officials make some really dumb decisions'; 'he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse'; 'worked with the slow students' .

(adj.) having high relative density or specific gravity; 'dense as lead' .

(adj.) hard to pass through because of dense growth; 'dense vegetation'; 'thick woods' .

(adj.) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; 'dense smoke'; 'heavy fog'; 'impenetrable gloom' .

道格拉斯校对

• At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Diving into the dense obscurity in a line headed by Sam the turf-cutter, they pursued their trackless way home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They had to wait, the driver calling and shouting, till the dense crowd would make way. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He came to a little white house--you could see it was white even through this dense darkness--and knocked at the door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Heat, in general, causes substances to expand or become less dense. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage--no opening anywhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I feared no carriage would comethe white tempest raged so dense and wild. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The actual world at their feet was veiling itself in dimness, and across the valley a clear moon rose in the denser blue. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The atmosphere was much denser then, usually great cloud masses obscured the sun, frequent storms darkened the heavens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The elements of a denser kind would, accord ing to the law of gravitation, attract matter of less specific gravity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She was excessively pale, and her pallor made her dark hair seem denser and heavier than ever. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The African forests were denser then, and spread eastward and northward from the Upper Nile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:梅雷迪思