Mammoth
['mæməθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks.
整理:威廉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
(a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
手打:丽贝卡
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fossil elephant (Elephas primigenus).
a. Gigantic, very large.
校對:尼古拉斯
解釋/意思:
n. an extinct species of elephant.—adj. resembling the mammoth in size: very large.
編輯:斯坦利
例句/造句/用法:
- Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One of these mammoth engines is capable of drawing a train of box cars, loaded with wheat, and more than a mile long, at a speed of ten miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The mammoth new aqueduct system by which water is carried from the Catskills to the Battery is another example of electricity as a source of power for large construction work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This mammoth vessel was too large and unwieldy for the uses for which she was designed, and proved a bad investment. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Huge shells filled with high explosives from these mammoth guns rapidly destroyed the most modern and powerful fortifications known at the beginning of the great war. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At the Vienna Exposition in 1873, the first mammoth saw of this description was exhibited. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is a suggestion in some of the drawings of a fence of stakes in which a mammoth seems to be entangled. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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