early 15c., from Middle French dense and directly from Latin densus "thick, crowded; cloudy," perhaps from PIE root *dens- "dense, thick" (cognates: Greek dasus "hairy, shaggy"). Sense of "stupid" is first recorded 1822.
双语例句
1. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
滚滚浓烟盘旋翻腾，恶臭味呛得她喘不过气来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.
他的散文文笔有力、内容庞杂，有时几近晦涩。
来自柯林斯例句
3. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.
他们花了36个小时穿过茂密的莫桑比克丛林。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.
2,000万年前，爱达荷州到处都是茂密的原始森林。
来自柯林斯例句
5. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest.
