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

• In the park there are twelve small islands connected by arched bridges and small mounds.
  在公园中有12个小岛屿相连拱桥和小土堆。
• Down the hill sat four mounds of lime.
  下来，坐在山四丘石灰。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Mounds of pumice and volcanic ash mark its center, where the volcano remains.
  浮石和火山灰的土墩标志着它的中心，是火山的遗迹。
• Muddy grass and small gray mounds of melting snow.
  草上粘满泥污，一个个灰色小雪堆正在溶化。
• 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。
• Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds.
  过去建立土墩祭坛的古老的印地安人。
• Known as the Devils Marbles, these naturally rounded boulders formed over a billion years ago when cooling magma in the Earth's crust forced up mounds of sandstone-covered granite.
  这些天然的圆形大石头被称为“魔鬼的弹珠”，大约在十亿年前，地壳中冷却的岩浆从砂石覆盖的花岗岩石堆中涌出，形成了这些圆石。
• 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。