penning的中文翻译是什么意思

N-COUNT钢笔

A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink.

VERB写；书写

If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it.

• 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。

• 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。

N-COUNT栏；圈；棚

A pen is also a small area with a fence round it in which farm animals are kept for a short time.

• ...a holding pen for sheep...

  暂时搭建的羊圈

• He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.

  他不是十分确定狐狸是怎么进入羊圈的。

VERB把…关起来；把…圈起来

If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.

• ...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

• 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。

N-COUNT监狱

People sometimes say the pen to refer to a prison.

PHRASE动笔；下笔

If you put pen to paper, you write something.

• 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。