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mound

noun
🔊/maʊnd/
🔊/maʊnd/
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  1. 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。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • 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
    Topics Geographyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • high
    • large
    • low
    • …
    preposition
    • on a/​the mound
    phrases
    • the foot of a mound
    • the top of a mound
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  2. a pile一堆 synonym heap
    • a small mound of rice/sand一小堆米／沙子
    Extra Examples
    • 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。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • big
    • great
    • huge
    • …
    preposition
    • mound of
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  3. mound of something (informal) a large amount of something许多；大量 synonym heap
    • 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
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • big
    • great
    • huge
    • …
    preposition
    • mound of
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  4. (in baseball 棒球) the small raised area where the player who throws the ball (called the pitcher) stands 投球区土墩
    5. Word Originearly 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’.