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.
雙語例句
1. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
滾滾濃煙盤旋翻騰，惡臭味嗆得她喘不過氣來。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.
他的散文文筆有力、內容龐雜，有時幾近晦澀。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.
他們花了36個小時穿過茂密的莫桑比克叢林。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.
2,000萬年前，愛達荷州到處都是茂密的原始森林。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest.