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。
• Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds.
  过去建立土墩祭坛的古老的印地安人。
• 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。
• The smaller fragments and mounds of dust are carefully piled up at the side.
  较小的碎片和土堆则小心堆在一旁。
• 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。
• 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。
• This in turn has caused the plants on the mounds to grow bigger and their roots deeper.
  这反过来使堤坝上的植物长得更大，根扎得更深。
• 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；
• 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。