mountain

英 ['maʊntɪn] 美 ['maʊntn]

CET4TEM4考研CET6

解释

n. 山；山脉
n. (Mountain)人名；(英)芒廷

※ 提供单词"mountain"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

mountain 高山

来自mount,山，-ain,小词后缀。字面意思即小山，在18世纪前，该词都用来指高度非常低的小山。比较Mount Everest.

英文词源

mountain: mountain: [13] Latin mōns ‘mountain’ could well go back ultimately to a variant of the base *min- ‘jut’ which produced English eminent, imminent, menace, and prominent. English acquired it originally direct from Latin as a noun, mount [OE], which is now used only in the names of mountains. The verb mount followed in the 14th century, via Old French munter.

Latin mōns had a derived adjective montānus ‘mountainous’, which was adapted in Vulgar Latin to the noun *montānea ‘mountainous area’. This made its way into Old French as montaigne, by which time it meant simply ‘mountain’ – whence English mountain. Amount [13] comes ultimately from the Latin phrase ad montem ‘to the mountain’, hence ‘upwards’; and paramount [16] in turn derives from an Old French phrase par amont ‘by above’, hence ‘superior’.
=> amount, eminent, imminent, menace, mount, paramount, prominent, tantamount
mountain (n.): c. 1200, from Old French montaigne (Modern French montagne), from Vulgar Latin *montanea "mountain, mountain region," noun use of fem. of *montaneus "of a mountain, mountainous," from Latin montanus "mountainous, of mountains," from mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)).

Until 18c., applied to a fairly low elevation if it was prominent (such as Sussex Downs, the hills around Paris). As an adjective from late 14c. Mountain dew "raw and inferior whiskey" first recorded 1839; earlier a type of Scotch whiskey (1816); Jamieson's 1825 "Supplement" to his Scottish dictionary defines it specifically as "A cant term for Highland whisky that has paid no duty." Mountain-climber recorded from 1839; mountain-climbing from 1836.

展开全部 ▼

例句和用法

1. I'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.: 我会开车去肖特山看看亚当斯夫人。

2. The truck sways wildly, careening down narrow mountain roads.: 卡车疯狂地左摇右晃，从狭窄的山路上急冲而下。

3. Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.: 搜救人员已经找到了周六失踪的3名登山者。

4. We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.: 我们沿着一条蜿蜒的小道爬向山上的一处避难所。

5. Typically, the Norwegians were on the mountain two hours before anyone else.: 像往常一样，挪威人比其他所有人都提前两小时进山。