mounds

英 [maʊndz]

美 [maʊndz]

n.  土墩; 小丘; 小山岗; 一堆; 许多; 大量
mound的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (一)堆;(一)垛
  Amoundof something is a large rounded pile of it.
  1. The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt...
     推土机堆起一堆一堆的泥土。
  2. The table was a mound of paper and books.
     桌上堆满了文件和书。
• (棒球内场中央高出地面的)投球区土墩
  In baseball, themoundis the raised area where the pitcher stands when he or she throws the ball.

双语例句

• Walls or mounds used around a stronghold to strengthen it.
  为巩固要塞而在它周围建的围墙或土垛。
• They often sleep in hollow trees, burrows, rock crevices, or empty termite mounds, and will come back to the same place every night.
  他们时常在空的树，洞穴中睡觉，岩石裂缝，或空的白蚁土墩和每个夜晚将会回到相同的地方。
• Every summer the mounds over the ancient settlement are uncovered and more gems from successive incomers are unearthed.
  每年夏天都有古代聚居点遗址被发现，同时还有更多后续迁入者携带的宝石出土。
• For one thing, the near-circular mounds weren't formed by molten-rock volcanoes because there are no deposits of volcanic ash or lava nearby.
  一方面，这些近乎圆形的土丘不是由于火山熔岩形成的，因为附近没有火山灰和熔岩构成的沉积层；
• We had mounds of tasteless rice.
  我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
• I noticed a number of straight mounds, like plough furrows, running from the river inland.
  我注意到有一行笔直的土棱，从河边伸向内地，就象是犁出来的垄沟。
• Ah! and there's the cemetery '-cemetery, he must have meant.' You see the mounds?
  啊，这就是同墓，&我想他要说的一定是公墓，看到那些土墩了吗？
• The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt
  推土机堆起一堆一堆的泥土。
• Among the eyes of newts and toes of frogs are mounds of dried seahorses.
  一堆堆干海马摆放在蝾螈眼和田鸡腿中间。
• On the hot, dry savannahs of east and west Africa, their mounds are many-spired "cathedrals".
  在东非和西非炎热干旱的草原上，他们的巢有许多“教堂的尖塔”。