mound

• n. 堆；高地；坟堆；护堤
• vt. 堆起；筑堤
• vi. 积成堆

来自中古英语mound,防御土墙，围墙，来自古英语mund,手，保护，监护权，来自PIE*man,手，词源同manual,manipulate.后引申词义土墩，土丘，词义可能受到mount影响。

1. (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands

2. a small natural hill

3. a collection of objects laid on top of each other

4. structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones;

"they built small mounds to hide behind"

5. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit;

"he has played every position except pitcher"

"they have a southpaw on the mound"

mound (n.)

1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.

mound (v.)

1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c. 1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.

a Bronze Age burial mound

青铜时代的坟冢

牛津词典

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。

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a small mound of rice/sand

一小堆米 / 沙子

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I've got a mound of paperwork to do.

我有一堆文案工作要做。

牛津词典

The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt...

推土机堆起一堆一堆的泥土。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The table was a mound of paper and books.

桌上堆满了文件和书。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Mussina said that he expects to casually throw off a mound Sunday in Oakland.

老穆说他预期星期天在奥克兰投球.

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Where fires are permitted , use established fire rings, fire pans , or mound fires.

在允许营火处, 只在火圈处生火.

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The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

勘探者爬上土丘去勘测周围的土地.

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The pitcher toed the mound, wound up and threw a fast ball.

投球手用脚趾踩踏板,挥动手臂, 投出了一个快球.

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He lay in his bunk under a mound of blankest.

他躺在铺上,身上盖着一大堆毯子.

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Here a mound suffices for me for whom the world was not large enough.

曾经整个世界对于他来说都太小;现在一个土墩已使他心满意足.

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You can see him develop on the mound.

你可以看到他在投手丘上的成长.

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The bulldozer leveled the mound of earth.

推土机把土堆铲平.

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The children are playing on the mound.

孩子们正在小土墩上玩.

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With this ritual, the necromancer revives a Mound King and binds him to his service.

通过这个仪式魔法, 亡灵巫师复活一个坟丘之王并使其为自己服务.

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The wind swept up the sand into a mound.

风把沙子吹拢成一个小丘.

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The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.

这个城堡建在一座天然的绿草如茵的小丘上.

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The mound can be used as our screen.

这个土丘可做我们的掩蔽物.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I've still got a mound of letters to answer.

我还有一大堆信要回复.

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Archaeologist Christina Sch ü tte cleans the skull of a child which was found in the dwelling mound.

考古学家正在清理从该遗址发现的一只儿童头骨.

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What I can melt the hearts of ice mound?

还有什麽能溶化我心中的冰砣?

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There's a mound of books on my desk.

我的书桌上有一堆书.

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Then instinctively his hand left the stone and rested upon the low mound of turf.

跟着,他不由自主的把手从碑上拿开,按在那一小堆草丘上.

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There is a mound of papers on my desk.

在我的办公桌上有一大堆文件.

《简明英汉词典》

In a moment, the four pirates had swarmed up the mound and were upon us.

转眼间, 这四个海盗就冲上了小山丘,向我们扑来.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

With Wang on the mound, however , the Bombers knew they probably wouldn't need many runs.

当小民站在投手丘上时, 先发打者会觉得他们不一定要攻下很多分.

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Workers then assembled the oven and placed it onto an earthen mound.

工人进行组装,放在烤箱上一个土冢它.

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She carefully spoons pre cut ruby red strawberries onto the mound of golden corn flakes.

她小心地舀了些已切好如红宝石般的草莓放在金黄的玉米脆片堆上.

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