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

• Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds.
  过去建立土墩祭坛的古老的印地安人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Mounds of oyster shells surround the weathered shacks.
  成堆的牡蛎壳包围着这些久经风吹日晒的木板棚屋。
• 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。
• As they look like mounds of earth.
  你看，它们的形状像一个个土墩。
• 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；
• Domes first appeared on round huts and tombs in the ancient Middle east, india, and the Mediterranean in forms, such as solid mounds, adaptable only to the smallest buildings.
  源于实心的土丘，最早只用在很小的建筑上，例如古代中东，印度和地中海地区的圆棚屋和坟墓。