1.兽穴;兽窝the hidden home of some types of wild animal
a bear's/lion's den熊的╱狮子的洞穴
2.窝点,窝子(尤指非法或邪恶活动秘密聚会处)a place where people meet in secret, especially for some illegal or immoral activity
a den of thieves贼窝
a drinking/gambling den酗酒窝点;赌窟
He thought of New York as a den of iniquity .他把纽约视为罪恶的渊薮。
3.休息室a room in a house where people go to relax, watch television, etc.
4.(informal)书斋;书房a room in a house where a person can work or study without being disturbed
He would often retire to his den.他往往是回自己的书房去。
5.(儿童的)隐蔽玩耍处a secret place, often made roughly with walls and a roof, where children play
They made themselves a den in the woods.他们在树林里为自己搭了个窝,在里面玩。
If he were, I said to myself, he could hardly be such a fool as to walk right into the lion's den.
要真是那样,我寻思,他不应该愚蠢到自投罗网。
The old woman went upstairs with her, opened the door, and they hurried out of the murderer's den as fast as they could.
真是上帝保佑,她很快脱离了险境,与老婆走上楼梯,一起逃出了这个杀人魔窟。
He would come out of it - talk, explain - and then go back into his own den.
他会从里面出来——说话、解释——然后再回到他自己的窝里去。
An ideal den must be deep underground, where the earth is warm, but accessible from the surface via burrows or natural fissures.
理想的巢穴必须深入土壤很温暖的地下,但可以通过地洞或自然裂缝从地面进入。
It wasn't a real library, of course, it was just a small den dominated by a television set.
当然,它只是一个放电视的小房间,并不是一个真正的图书馆。
They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's den.
他们象窥探一个狮子洞似的望着那黑暗的街垒。
4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? b.
4狮子若非抓食,岂能在林中咆哮呢?少壮狮子若无所得,岂能从洞中发声呢?
Use simple words and convey them just as you would if you were sitting with friends in your den.
你应该像和朋友在自己屋子里促膝谈心那样采用简单的词来表达自己。
There was a den near the river, he said wistfully, and they'd migrate six miles up to a nice patch of open prairie full of gophers.
他留恋地说,河边有一个巢穴,它们向上迁移了6英里(约9.66公里),到开阔草原地鼠多的好地块去了。
The partisan crowd cheered while I slipped out the side door, feeling eerily like an early Christian escaping from a lion's den.
他的党羽们欢呼时我悄悄溜出了侧门,这种像狮口逃生的基督徒一样的感觉实在有些怪异。
A sleepy field mouse opened his eyes in his den deep underground. With a twitch of his nose, he scampered up the passageway to the surface.
一只困倦的田鼠,他一直深藏在地下的洞穴里,这时他睁开了眼,鼻子微微颤动了一下,然后沿着坑道一路奔跑,他来到了地面上。
People often talk about financial markets as if they were casinos, but reflexivity makes them much more dangerous than any gambling den.
人们常常把金融市场比作赌场,但是自反性使其危险性远胜于任何赌窝。
He stayed in his den, lying down there, and pretended to be sick. He took care that his sickness should be publicly known.
他呆在洞中,躺在那里,假装有病。他用心良苦,让大家都知道他病了。
The dragons were sitting in an elegant den at the Royal Society in London, Britain's national academy of sciences.
巨龙正端坐在英国国家科学院——伦敦英国皇家学会(RoyalSociety)优雅的兽穴中。
The inscriptions give us the name of King Den and, between him and the enemy, are the chilling words 'they shall not exist'.
这铭文告诉了我们这法老的名字是丹,然后在他与他的敌人之间是一句令人心寒的话:“他们不得存在。”
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den.
我讨厌去海边,听那海的咆哮声,像一只在穴里暴怒的野兽一样。
More recently, on a blazing summer day, he took me back to one of the den sites, in a slumping bank above the South Saskatchewan River.
最近,在夏天一个炽热的日子,他带我回到南萨斯喀彻温河坍塌河岸上这样一个巢穴地点。
I mentally began to turn our den and patio into a school room and play yard.
我心里开始把我们的破窝变成一间教室和游乐园。
And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out into the corridor.
话没说完,她已开了房门,到了过道里。
"It's OK at the moment, " he said, sitting in his basement den, which is decked out with a Ping-Pong table and wide-screen TV.
“目前一切没问题,”他坐在家中地下室的休闲房里说,这里配备了乒乓球桌和大屏幕电视。
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