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。

Parents have received angry letters penned in staffrooms and handed to children.
家长们收到了教师在办公室里起草，交给孩子带回家的愤怒信件。
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。
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。
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。
I penned a few words to father today.
今天，我给父亲写了一封短信。
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。
I had penned the chorus to a song that was eventually included in his fifth album Revolution.
我写了这首歌的合唱部分，最后这歌收入了他的第五张专辑“公转自转”。
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。
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。
She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
她觉得做家庭主妇很受束缚。