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

• 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。
• He penned a letter to the local paper.
  他给当地报纸写了一封信。
• The "Dear Economist" column, first penned by Alan Beattie and Chris Giles ( now FT trade and economics editors, respectively), has celebrated its fourth anniversary.
  《亲爱的经济学家》专栏度过了4周年生日。这个栏目最初由艾伦•贝蒂（AlanBeattie）和克里斯•贾尔斯（ChrisGiles）执笔，他们现在分别是英国《金融时报》的贸易和经济编辑。
• I penned a few lines to him.
  我略写几行给他。
• 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。
• When all the cattle were safely penned up, the farmer could stop work for the day.
  当所有的牛都安全地关进了栏中，这农民就可以结束了一天的工作。
• The whole family were penned up in one room for a month.
  整个一家人在一间房间被关了一个月。
• 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。
• They had the head and voice and bristles and body of swine but their minds remained unchanged as before, so they were penned there weeping.
  他们有头和声音和猪鬃和猪的身体，因此他们被圈起来了哭泣。