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Definition of mountain in English: mountainnoun ˈmaʊntɪnˈmaʊnt(ə)n 1A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill. 大山，山岳 we set off down the mountain they sought refuge in the mountains 他们在山区避难。 as modifier a mountain peak Example sentencesExamples - Frost speculated that the inhabitants favored the mountaintop location for two reasons: to mine rich lodes of silver in the area and because the site provided panoramic views of central Vilcabamba's snowy mountain peaks, some as high as 18,000 feet (5,486 meters), which were sacred to ancient Andeans.
- Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast.
- Where particularly heavy rain falls on mountains with steep and narrow channels, it can cause some of the worst flash floods in the world.
- Standing some 3282 ft above sea level, the mountain is one of the most remote in Scotland.
- No wonder mountain spring water and air-dried hams are two of the things that make the area famous with the Spanish.
- Waiting to jump from the boat, I gaze up at the snow-capped mountains surrounding the fjord.
- High mountains surround Loch Ossian, and the edges of the loch are softened by woods.
- The last two days of the trip involve a ski tour, including an overnight stay in a mountain hut.
- They were in a deep valley completely surrounded by mountains.
- Then take advantage of the surrounding landscape of mountains and waterfalls to spend a few days hiking.
- The valley, surrounded by steep mountains, is one of the Amazon's least spoiled treasures.
- Excellent views of the lake and Mount Aspiring can be seen from the mountain top.
- The interior consists of mountains, hills, valleys, and a high central plateau.
- The view from our room is sublime - Scotland's longest loch and an assortment of rolling hills and mountains.
- Throughout the Smokies you may be enticed from your car by the sight, sound, and feel of clear, cool mountain streams and waterfalls.
- It is surrounded by mountains with sheer cliffs several hundred feet high which make it popular with walkers and climbers.
- In your mind's eye, can't you see the rocky peaks of the high mountains, the deep glens, the tumbling rivers?
- Allium bulgarium grows wild in the woodlands and mountain slopes of Turkey and the Ukraine.
- When you are on the top of a mountain, you see mountains all around and all is covered by a dense forest.
- Surrounded by mountains and rainforest, it's about two hours drive from Hobart.
- Steep mountains covered in virgin rainforest ascend into patches of cloud.
- The town is surrounded by tall hills and mountains, and you can have a very pleasant hike down any of the numerous trails there.
- It was surrounded by incredible mountains, and on most of them was snow.
Synonyms peak, height, elevation, eminence, prominence, summit, pinnacle, mountaintop, alp, horn (mountains), range, massif, sierra, cordillera, ridge Northern English fell Scottish ben, Munro South African berg in North Africa jebel Geology inselberg archaic mount 2a mountain/mountains ofA large pile or quantity of something. 大量；（一）大堆 大量的文书工作。 Example sentencesExamples - Never have I had such a mountain of paperwork to clear before Christmas.
- In the Middle Ages, mountains of coal piled up in London as a result of sea trade.
- When I got into work there was a mountain of work to get through, loads of meeting requests and several problems to sort out.
- Then there was the fallout, as the dreams of growth vanished to leave only rapidly diminishing cash piles or large mountains of debt.
- Gallacher attends his fair share of meetings and usually has a mountain of paperwork to get through at the end of the day.
Synonyms a great deal, a lot, heap, pile, mound, stack profusion, abundance, quantity backlog, logjam informal lots, loads, heaps, piles, tons, masses, oodles, scads British informal shedload North American informal slew, gobs Australian/New Zealand informal swag vulgar slang shitload North American vulgar slang assload - 2.1usually with modifier A large surplus stock of a commodity.
（商品的）大量积压，过剩 Example sentencesExamples - Campaigners complain that shifting the butter mountain into developing countries stifles agricultural trade, by crowding out domestic farmers who can't compete with the might of the EU.
- Until the 1980s, the EU simply bought any extra production and piled it up in warehouses, forming what became known as the EU ‘butter mountain’ (‘wine lakes’ were another manifestation of the same problem).
Synonyms surplus, surfeit, glut, excess, overabundance, oversupply
Phrasesif the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain proverb If someone won't do as you wish or a situation can't be arranged to suit you, you must accept it and change your plans accordingly. 〈谚〉事不迁就人，人就得迁就事 Example sentencesExamples - In Engineering circles, the saying ‘if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain’ may evoke thoughts of earthmoving.
- As they say, ‘If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain’.
- The long and the short of it is - if the mountain does not come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
1Achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results. 创造奇迹 信念可以创造奇迹。 Example sentencesExamples - But he retained the Marxist belief in thinking big - and the confidence that if you are aligned with the forces of history, a handful of people can move mountains.
- He provided the kind of leadership that moves mountains.
- Arnie believes the force of his personality can move mountains.
- I believe if people work together, we could move mountains and we need a vision for the future.
- Ideas move mountains, especially in turbulent times.
- I see hip hop as a powerful genre of music that can positively and productively move mountains and make this world a better place to live in, if utilized correctly.
- This is the kind of enthusiasm that moved mountains in postwar Europe and Japan.
- It tells the story of how together Unions and parents with special needs children can move mountains.
- If faith can move mountains, what can it do for a club's Premiership prospects?
- Your determination might be able to move mountains, but it's totally acceptable to ask your friends for help when you need it.
- That, combined with faith, gives us the power to move mountains.
- We have faith in our chances, and faith can move mountains.
- Hence, I'd urge you to take a moment today to reflect not only on the glory of the Civil Rights movement, but also on the ability of a single soul with a potent dream to move mountains.
- There's a verse in the bible that says if anyone has faith the size of a mustard seed, he can move mountains.
- He told me that love is powerful, peace and grace are necessary for salvation, faith can move mountains, and that patience and understanding are important tools in life.
- It was also a political movement of world significance which demonstrated that democratic and non-revolutionary political organization could move mountains.
- While much could be accomplished on a human level with the larger contributions, this woman exhibited the kind of trust in God that could move mountains.
- They were desperate and had very high expectations - and expectations can often move mountains.
- ‘Love can move mountains,’ sang the beautiful soloist and the choir.
- If she can forgive me, then she can move mountains, and I mean this truly.
Synonyms perform miracles, do wonders, work wonders, achieve the impossible 2Make every possible effort. 竭尽全力 his fans move mountains to catch as many of his performances as possible 他的崇拜者们竭尽其能尽可能多地去观看他的演出。 Example sentencesExamples - If I could have shielded them from this hurt I would have moved mountains to do so.
- We will move mountains to try and ensure the medal comes back to Ballynahinch and not end up with some private collector.
- Democratic presidential nominee candidate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says he would move mountains to improve the economy if he were elected president.
- Dr. Barry, who moves mountains for her patients, is doing all that one doctor can do.
- There are many reasons why I retain a personal assistant, and this is one of the most important: I have moved mountains to engineer a lifestyle in which nobody expects much out of me before the hour of 11 a.m.
- But a Convention of Scottish Local Authorities spokesman added: ‘We have moved mountains to deliver on legislation.’
- David, look, let me just say it again: Had I known there was going to be an attack on America, I would have moved mountains to stop the attack.
- His supporters are moving mountains to allow him to enter the race.
- We have moved mountains, working all over Christmas and the New Year.
Synonyms make every effort, pull out all the stops, do one's best, do one's utmost
Derivativesadjective Johnny becomes embroiled in a shady land acquisition deal involving a grasping cleric, a shrewd settled traveller and some mountainy men over a ‘bit of bog which might just be turned into a runway.’ Example sentencesExamples - So, it was his love for Irish music and his wish to expand and develop on his ‘old-time, mountainy music ‘that really took him there.
- ‘This mountainy country would have been favoured by the highwaymen years ago but I have found that there are always a lot more thieves on the main roads’ he said.
- Some of the hurling areas in Offaly are on mountainy lands or on the Shannon, which is hardly good land.
- She talks of the courage of these Irish women, most of whom came from rural Ireland, the small villages and towns, the farms and mountainy lands, and who dug hollows in the flat plains within which to shelter.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French montaigne, based on Latin mons, mont- 'mountain'. The Latin word mons ‘mountain’ was extended in French to create the ancestor of mountain. It is also the source of mount (Old English), paramount (mid 16th century) ‘highest’, and amount (Middle English). The story behind the proverb if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain, was told in 1625 by the philosopher Francis Bacon. Muhammad was once challenged to prove his credentials as a prophet by summoning Mount Safa to come to him. Inevitably, the mountain did not move in response to his summons, but Muhammad had a ready answer for this. He observed that if the mountain had moved it would have crushed him and all his followers to death. Therefore it was only right that now he should go to the mountain and give thanks to God for his mercy in sparing them all from this disaster. The phrase to move mountains means both ‘to achieve apparently impossible results’ and ‘to make every effort’. In the first sense it goes back to Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: ‘And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.’ The contrast of size between mountains and molehills has been exploited since the late 16th century hence make a mountain out of a molehill.
Definition of mountain in US English: mountainnounˈmaʊnt(ə)nˈmount(ə)n 1A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill. 大山，山岳 the village is backed by awe-inspiring mountains we set off down the mountain as modifier the ice and snow of a mountain peak Example sentencesExamples - Throughout the Smokies you may be enticed from your car by the sight, sound, and feel of clear, cool mountain streams and waterfalls.
- Surrounded by mountains and rainforest, it's about two hours drive from Hobart.
- Excellent views of the lake and Mount Aspiring can be seen from the mountain top.
- In your mind's eye, can't you see the rocky peaks of the high mountains, the deep glens, the tumbling rivers?
- They were in a deep valley completely surrounded by mountains.
- It was surrounded by incredible mountains, and on most of them was snow.
- Standing some 3282 ft above sea level, the mountain is one of the most remote in Scotland.
- High mountains surround Loch Ossian, and the edges of the loch are softened by woods.
- The town is surrounded by tall hills and mountains, and you can have a very pleasant hike down any of the numerous trails there.
- When you are on the top of a mountain, you see mountains all around and all is covered by a dense forest.
- Steep mountains covered in virgin rainforest ascend into patches of cloud.
- It is surrounded by mountains with sheer cliffs several hundred feet high which make it popular with walkers and climbers.
- The interior consists of mountains, hills, valleys, and a high central plateau.
- Then take advantage of the surrounding landscape of mountains and waterfalls to spend a few days hiking.
- Waiting to jump from the boat, I gaze up at the snow-capped mountains surrounding the fjord.
- Allium bulgarium grows wild in the woodlands and mountain slopes of Turkey and the Ukraine.
- Frost speculated that the inhabitants favored the mountaintop location for two reasons: to mine rich lodes of silver in the area and because the site provided panoramic views of central Vilcabamba's snowy mountain peaks, some as high as 18,000 feet (5,486 meters), which were sacred to ancient Andeans.
- Where particularly heavy rain falls on mountains with steep and narrow channels, it can cause some of the worst flash floods in the world.
- The valley, surrounded by steep mountains, is one of the Amazon's least spoiled treasures.
- The view from our room is sublime - Scotland's longest loch and an assortment of rolling hills and mountains.
- The last two days of the trip involve a ski tour, including an overnight stay in a mountain hut.
- No wonder mountain spring water and air-dried hams are two of the things that make the area famous with the Spanish.
- Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast.
Synonyms peak, height, elevation, eminence, prominence, summit, pinnacle, mountaintop, alp, horn - 1.1mountains A mountainous region characterized by remoteness and inaccessibility.
山脉；山区 they sought refuge in the mountains 他们在山区避难。 his attempt to picture the mountain folk in ridiculous attire Example sentencesExamples - Next day we trekked along a steep mountain trail to reach the rim of this vast, embracing feature.
- Those cultivating mountain land are mostly Aborigines and the farmland belongs to them.
- They financed buses to ferry people from the most remote mountain villages to Beirut for the day.
- 1.2a mountain/mountains of A large pile or quantity of something.
大量；（一）大堆 大量的文书工作。 Example sentencesExamples - Never have I had such a mountain of paperwork to clear before Christmas.
- In the Middle Ages, mountains of coal piled up in London as a result of sea trade.
- Then there was the fallout, as the dreams of growth vanished to leave only rapidly diminishing cash piles or large mountains of debt.
- When I got into work there was a mountain of work to get through, loads of meeting requests and several problems to sort out.
- Gallacher attends his fair share of meetings and usually has a mountain of paperwork to get through at the end of the day.
Synonyms a great deal, a lot, heap, pile, mound, stack - 1.3usually with modifier A large surplus stock of a commodity.
（商品的）大量积压，过剩 this farming produced huge food mountains Example sentencesExamples - Campaigners complain that shifting the butter mountain into developing countries stifles agricultural trade, by crowding out domestic farmers who can't compete with the might of the EU.
- Until the 1980s, the EU simply bought any extra production and piled it up in warehouses, forming what became known as the EU ‘butter mountain’ (‘wine lakes’ were another manifestation of the same problem).
Synonyms surplus, surfeit, glut, excess, overabundance, oversupply
Phrases1Achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results. 创造奇迹 Example sentencesExamples - I see hip hop as a powerful genre of music that can positively and productively move mountains and make this world a better place to live in, if utilized correctly.
- Hence, I'd urge you to take a moment today to reflect not only on the glory of the Civil Rights movement, but also on the ability of a single soul with a potent dream to move mountains.
- There's a verse in the bible that says if anyone has faith the size of a mustard seed, he can move mountains.
- This is the kind of enthusiasm that moved mountains in postwar Europe and Japan.
- Your determination might be able to move mountains, but it's totally acceptable to ask your friends for help when you need it.
- But he retained the Marxist belief in thinking big - and the confidence that if you are aligned with the forces of history, a handful of people can move mountains.
- I believe if people work together, we could move mountains and we need a vision for the future.
- Ideas move mountains, especially in turbulent times.
- While much could be accomplished on a human level with the larger contributions, this woman exhibited the kind of trust in God that could move mountains.
- ‘Love can move mountains,’ sang the beautiful soloist and the choir.
- They were desperate and had very high expectations - and expectations can often move mountains.
- He told me that love is powerful, peace and grace are necessary for salvation, faith can move mountains, and that patience and understanding are important tools in life.
- Arnie believes the force of his personality can move mountains.
- We have faith in our chances, and faith can move mountains.
- If she can forgive me, then she can move mountains, and I mean this truly.
- It was also a political movement of world significance which demonstrated that democratic and non-revolutionary political organization could move mountains.
- It tells the story of how together Unions and parents with special needs children can move mountains.
- If faith can move mountains, what can it do for a club's Premiership prospects?
- He provided the kind of leadership that moves mountains.
- That, combined with faith, gives us the power to move mountains.
Synonyms perform miracles, do wonders, work wonders, achieve the impossible 2Make every possible effort. 竭尽全力 his fans move mountains to catch as many of his performances as possible 他的崇拜者们竭尽其能尽可能多地去观看他的演出。 Example sentencesExamples - There are many reasons why I retain a personal assistant, and this is one of the most important: I have moved mountains to engineer a lifestyle in which nobody expects much out of me before the hour of 11 a.m.
- We will move mountains to try and ensure the medal comes back to Ballynahinch and not end up with some private collector.
- Dr. Barry, who moves mountains for her patients, is doing all that one doctor can do.
- David, look, let me just say it again: Had I known there was going to be an attack on America, I would have moved mountains to stop the attack.
- If I could have shielded them from this hurt I would have moved mountains to do so.
- Democratic presidential nominee candidate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says he would move mountains to improve the economy if he were elected president.
- But a Convention of Scottish Local Authorities spokesman added: ‘We have moved mountains to deliver on legislation.’
- We have moved mountains, working all over Christmas and the New Year.
- His supporters are moving mountains to allow him to enter the race.
Synonyms make every effort, pull out all the stops, do one's best, do one's utmost
OriginMiddle English: from Old French montaigne, based on Latin mons, mont- ‘mountain’. |