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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt
  推土机堆起一堆一堆的泥土。
• We had mounds of tasteless rice.
  我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
• People made mounds of stone, brush, or mud, in water.
  人们用石头线、树枝，或泥土在水中修筑线脚。
• 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。
• Is it purely coincidental that there was much speculation in Joseph Smith's area about Indian Mounds and battles?
  在约瑟斯密的地区有许多关于印地安坟冢和战争，这纯粹是一个巧合吗？
• They were used as burial mounds and sometimes have several rooms inside containing human and animal remains and pottery.
  这些用来做墓冢，有时里面有几个墓室，存放人和动物的遗体及陶器。
• 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”。