penned

英 [pend]

美 [pend]

v.  写; (把…)关起来，圈起来
pen的过去分词和过去式

过去式：penned　

COCA.41989

柯林斯词典

• See also:fountain pen
• VERB 写；书写
  If someonepensa letter, article, or book, they write it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• See also:...a holding pen for sheep...He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen.playpen
• VERB 把…关起来；把…圈起来
  If people or animalsare pennedsomewhere orare penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。
  3. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.
     我不必像个囚犯一样被关在房间里。
• 监狱
  People sometimes saythe pento refer to a prison.
• PHRASE 动笔；下笔
  If youput pen to paper, you write something.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• An unnamed writer from The Daily Show penned some of his jokes.
  一位《每日秀》的匿名作家记录了当晚奥巴马讲的一些笑话。
• There our childhood had been penned up by an honest old dame.
  在那里，那诚实的老妇人曾关闭着我们的童年时代。
• Johnnie Boden penned a letter that went out to selected customers last week who had stopped buying from him.
  约翰尼•波登最近写了一封信，有选择地发给一些顾客：他们都是已经停止向其购物的人。
• I recently penned a piece for forensic Asia called accounting Wars: Transnational regulation in China.
  最近，我为ForensicAsia撰写了一篇题为《会计战：中国的跨国法规》（AccountingWars：TransnationalRegulationinChina）的文章。
• Unused to living in so small a house, she felt penned up.
  不习惯于住在那麽小的房子里，她感到了拘束。
• The professor may not know that he has many phantom colleagues who have penned Chinese best-sellers.
  这位教授可能不知道，他有许多虚幻的同事写的书是中国畅销书。
• She penned a note of thanks to her hostess.
  她写了一个表示感谢的便笺给女主人。
• Cosette, utterly overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of lines to Marius.
  珂赛特被这一意外的决定搞得心烦意乱，赶忙写了两行字给马吕斯。
• 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。
• She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
  她觉得做家庭主妇很受束缚。