mountain是什么意思_mountain怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

(often followed by `of") a large number or amount or extent;"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
"a lot of money"
"he made a mint on the stock market"
"see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"
"it must have cost plenty"
"a slew of journalists"
"a wad of money"

中英词源

mountain 高山wWw.wentIYI.COm

来自mount,山，-ain,小词后缀。字面意思即小山，在18世纪前，该词都用来指高度非常低的小山。比较Mount Everest.

mountain: mountain: [13] Latin mōns ‘mountain’ could well go back ultimately to a variant of the base *min- ‘jut’ which produced English eminent, imminent, menace, and prominent. English acquired it originally direct from Latin as a noun, mount [OE], which is now used only in the names of mountains. The verb mount followed in the 14th century, via Old French munter.

Latin mōns had a derived adjective montānus ‘mountainous’, which was adapted in Vulgar Latin to the noun *montānea ‘mountainous area’. This made its way into Old French as montaigne, by which time it meant simply ‘mountain’ – whence English mountain. Amount [13] comes ultimately from the Latin phrase ad montem ‘to the mountain’, hence ‘upwards’; and paramount [16] in turn derives from an Old French phrase par amont ‘by above’, hence ‘superior’.
=> amount, eminent, imminent, menace, mount, paramount, prominent, tantamount
mountain (n.): c. 1200, from Old French montaigne (Modern French montagne), from Vulgar Latin *montanea "mountain, mountain region," noun use of fem. of *montaneus "of a mountain, mountainous," from Latin montanus "mountainous, of mountains," from mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)).

Until 18c., applied to a fairly low elevation if it was prominent (such as Sussex Downs, the hills around Paris). As an adjective from late 14c. Mountain dew "raw and inferior whiskey" first recorded 1839; earlier a type of Scotch whiskey (1816); Jamieson"s 1825 "Supplement" to his Scottish dictionary defines it specifically as "A cant term for Highland whisky that has paid no duty." Mountain-climber recorded from 1839; mountain-climbing from 1836.

词态变化

复数 mountains;

权威造句

1. I"ll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.: 我会开车去肖特山看看亚当斯夫人。

2. The truck sways wildly, careening down narrow mountain roads.: 卡车疯狂地左摇右晃，从狭窄的山路上急冲而下。

3. Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.: 搜救人员已经找到了周六失踪的3名登山者。

4. We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.: 我们沿着一条蜿蜒的小道爬向山上的一处避难所。

5. Typically, the Norwegians were on the mountain two hours before anyone else.: 像往常一样，挪威人比其他所有人都提前两小时进山。

近反义词

hill

mount

相似短语

on the mountain 在山上

mountain railway 山区铁路

mountain daisy phr. 山菊花

remainder mountain 环蚀山

mountain chain n.山脉

mountain terrain 山岭地区

mountain trail phr. 山道；山步道

mountain quail phr. 高山鹑

mountain air 山地空气

a mountain of 山一样的一大堆,大量的…

单词分析

这些名词均含有“山”之意。
hill通常指小的土山、石山或浅丘。有时也指高山，复数表群山。
mount常用于地名之前，即一般放在专用名词前，书面用词。
mountain通常指比hill高而陡的高山、山岳。但这种区别不是绝对的，“大”与“小”常常是相对而言。
range形成的山脉或岭。
peak指山峰，也可指山顶。
volcano特指主要由喷出的熔岩和火山灰堆积而成的圆锥形火山。

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