mount

英 [ma?nt] 美[ma?nt]

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復(fù)數(shù):?mounts;第三人稱單數(shù):?mounts;過去式:?mounted;過去分詞:?mounted;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mounting;

mount 攀登，騎上，安裝，山，山峰

來自拉丁語mons,山峰，高山，山，來自PIE*men,升出，突起，詞源同eminent,amount.引申動(dòng)詞詞義攀登，騎上，安裝等。

mount (v.): c. 1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.
mount (n.2): "that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount (v.). The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.
mount (n.1): "hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cognates: Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").

1. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.: 美國在該地區(qū)擁有足夠的火力發(fā)動(dòng)持續(xù)的空中打擊。

2. Mount Unzen has been spewing out volcanic ash, gas, and rock today.: 云仙山今天一直在向外噴涌火山灰、氣體和火山巖。

3. Mount Marcy is the highest mountain in the Adirondacks.: 馬西山是阿迪朗達(dá)克山脈中最高的山。

5. The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.: 去游泰山的問題盤踞在他心頭.