mound
noun /maʊnd/
/maʊnd/
- a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill
土墩;小丘;小山岗 - a Bronze Age burial mound
青铜时代的坟冢 - The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.
这座城堡建在一个天然的绿草如茵的小丘上。
Topics Geographyc2- The church stands on a high mound just outside the village.
教堂就矗立在村外的一处高地上。 - a small tree on a grassy mound
葱翠的山冈上的一棵小树
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- large
- low
- …
- on a/the mound
- the foot of a mound
- the top of a mound
- a Bronze Age burial mound
- a pile
synonym heap一堆 - a small mound of rice/sand
一小堆米/沙子
- a neat mound of leaves
匀整的一堆树叶 - He covered the mound of rice on his plate with the sauce.
他往堆在盘子里的米饭上浇了调味汁。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
- a small mound of rice/sand
- mound of something (informal) a large amount of something
synonym heap许多;大量 - I've got a mound of paperwork to do.
我有一堆文案工作要做。 - a great mound of paperwork
一大堆要做的文书工作
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
- I've got a mound of paperwork to do.
- (in baseball
) the small raised area where the player who throws the ball (called the pitcher) stands棒球 投球区土墩
词源early 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence’.