Mound
[maʊnd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; 'they built small mounds to hide behind'.
(noun.) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.
(verb.) form into a rounded elevation; 'mound earth'.
杰米整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
校對:谢尔曼
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Hillock, heap.[2]. Rampart, bulwark, defence.
整理:梅
解釋/意思:
n. (her.) the representation of a globe encircled with bands and surmounted by a cross.—Also Monde.
n. an artificial mount: a natural hillock appearing as if thrown up by man's work: (fort.) a bank of earth or stone raised as a protection.—v.t. to fortify with a mound.—n.pl. Mound′-birds a family of Australasian gallinaceous birds which build large mounds as incubators for their eggs.—n. Mound′-build′er one of the primitive race which built the vast so-called Indian mounds found in the United States esp. east of the Mississippi River.
整理:莎丽
例句/造句/用法:
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The small mound I have mentioned a while ago was once occupied by the Phenician city of Laish. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This is his own Mound,' whispered Wegg, as he recovered his wind, 'this one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- From the top of the crosses rise imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of these 4,800 were in Kentucky and Illinois, 7,000 in Memphis, 19,200 from Mound City south, and 17,500 at Corinth. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Could you be got to do so, till the Mounds are gone? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Not them Mounds without,' said Mr Wegg, extending his right hand with an air of solemn reasoning, 'encouragement? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was a cloudy night, and the black shadow of the Mounds made the dark yard darker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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