penning的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT鋼筆

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

VERB寫；書寫

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給你寫這封信的。

• She penned a short memo to his private secretary.

  她給他的私人秘書寫了一份簡短的備忘錄。

N-COUNT欄；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...

  暫時搭建的羊圈

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

  他不是十分確定狐狸是怎麼進入羊圈的。

VERB把…關起來；把…圈起來

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...

  將牛群趕回家，這樣就能擠奶並將其關進牛棚過夜

• The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day...

  山羊被關進圈裡，每天都得鍘草運料。

N-COUNT監獄

People sometimes say the pen to refer to a prison.

PHRASE動筆；下筆

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.

  他每次一提筆就不知道如何措辭透露這個訊息。