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a yew
作可数名词，指紫杉树；复数形式为 yews。
A yew grows beside the old church.
一棵紫杉长在古老教堂旁。
紫杉
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
紫杉
any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
A yew grows beside the old church.
一棵紫杉长在古老教堂旁。
一种针叶树,欧洲红豆杉,叶深绿色扁平针状,种子具红色假种皮,原产于欧洲中西部、西北非、伊朗北部及西南亚。
A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
红豆杉属的任何树木或灌木。
Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
其他类似红豆杉属的针叶树:
Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:
此类树木的木材。
The wood of such trees.
The old yew in the churchyard is thought to be over a thousand years old.
教堂墓园里的那棵老紫杉被认为已有一千多年树龄。
We planted two small yews at the corner of the garden last spring.
去年春天我们在花园角落种了两棵小紫杉。
A yew grows slowly but can live for many centuries.
紫杉生长缓慢，却能存活好几个世纪。
作可数名词，指紫杉树；复数形式为 yews。
A yew grows beside the old church.
一棵紫杉长在古老教堂旁。
yew 作不可数名词，指紫杉木；be made of 后接材料。
The longbow was made of yew.
这把长弓是用紫杉木做的。
Not this
Are yew going to the meeting?
Use this
Are you going to the meeting?
yew 与 you 同音（/juː/），但 yew 是名词，意为“紫杉树”；人称代词应拼作 you。
Not this
The garden has several yew.
Use this
The garden has several yews.
yew 表示“紫杉树”时是可数名词，复数形式为 yews。汉语名词没有单复数变化，容易漏加 -s；在 several 后须用复数。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
紫杉树
The yew tree in the churchyard is over 500 years old.
教堂墓地的紫杉树已有500多年历史。
英国紫杉
English yew is prized for its fine-grained wood.
英国紫杉因其纹理细腻的木材而备受珍视。
紫杉树篱
They planted a yew hedge along the garden border.
他们沿花园边界种了一排紫杉树篱。
紫杉木
Traditional longbows were often made from yew wood.
传统长弓常用紫杉木制作。
紫杉浆果
The red yew berries are poisonous to humans.
红色的紫杉浆果对人体有毒。
紫杉木弓
A yew bow was the weapon of choice for medieval archers.
紫杉木弓是中世纪弓箭手的首选武器。
老紫杉，你紧紧盘着那些刻着死者姓名的碑石，
In Tennyson's 'In Memoriam', the yew tree in the churchyard becomes a symbol of enduring memory.
在丁尼生的《悼念》中，教堂墓园里的紫杉树成为恒久记忆的象征。
有一棵紫杉树，是洛顿谷的骄傲。
William Wordsworth opens his poem 'Yew-Trees' with this tribute to an ancient yew tree in the Lake District.
威廉·华兹华斯在他的诗作《紫杉树》的开篇，以这句诗向湖区的一棵古老紫杉树致敬。
Use yew naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
yew 读起来像“you”，想象你对着一棵紫杉说“you”，红果像小灯笼，帮记住它是紫杉。
语域：neutral 常见场景：botany、horticulture、woodworking yew 作为树木或木材名称属于中性书面词，通常用于植物学、园艺或木工语境；口语中较少直接使用，但也不算生僻。
以上单词都与 yew 的读音 /juː/ 押韵，其中 you、ewe 与 yew 完全同音。注意拼写上的假朋友：sew 虽然也以 -ew 结尾，却读作 /səʊ/，与 yew 不押韵；crew /kruː/、blew /bluː/ 与 yew 押韵，但少了 /j/ 的滑音。new 在美式英语中常读作 /nuː/。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.