网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 mammoth
释义
mammoth
adjective
uk
/ˈmæm.əθ/us
/ˈmæm.əθ/
extremelylarge:
巨大的；庞大的
Cleaning up the city-widemessis going to be a mammothtask.清扫全市范围内的垃圾是一项艰巨的任务。
It's a mammothundertaking- are yousureyou have theresourcestocope?这是项艰巨的任务——你确信有能力完成吗？
Synonyms
enormous
gigantic
huge
jumbo
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
greater than the average size or amount
  • bigThey live in a big house in the country.
  • largeA large number of people were crowded into the room.
  • greatThe party was a great success.
  • enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs.
See more results »
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enormous
  • almighty
  • astronomical
  • astronomically
  • behemoth
  • bumper
  • by far and awayidiom
  • cavernous
  • immeasurable
  • immeasurably
  • immense
  • immensity
  • inordinate
  • mountainous
  • precipitous
  • prodigiously
  • stratospheric
  • super-colossal
  • supersized
  • terrific
  • thumping
See more results »
mammoth
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmæm.əθ/us
/ˈmæm.əθ/
atypeoflargeelephant, nowextinct, that wascoveredinhairand hadtusks
猛犸（象），毛象（现已绝种）
picture of mammoth
SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GettyImages
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Wild mammals
  • aardvark
  • anteater
  • armadillo
  • Bactrian
  • bandicoot
  • grizzly bear
  • hedgehog
  • hippopotamus
  • javelina
  • joey
  • pine marten
  • platypus
  • polar bear
  • polecat
  • porcupine
  • tapir
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Tasmanian wolf
  • thylacine
  • tusker
See more results »
(Definition ofmammothfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mammoth| American Dictionary

mammoth
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈmæm·əθ/
extremelylarge:
Building thedamwas a mammothconstructionproject.
(Definition ofmammothfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmammoth

mammoth
Is it safe to attract the mammoths without seeing to that?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
If the ice age had occurred over a long perod of time, would not the mammoths have drifted south?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
An air encounter between two fleets of these aerial mammoths can be more easily imagined than described.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Since 1968, mammoths of more than 150,000 tons at sea have multiplied by five.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They may not be mammoths or dinosaurs, but they have certainly proved to be sharks.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Vegetation was found in the stomachs of mammoths.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We are a tiny nation, and neither in manpower nor resources can we begin to challenge the two mammoths to left and right of us.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
She has tracked down both mice and mammoths with considerable deft ability and skill.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I will deal with one or two of the modest mice or evil mammoths.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
What happens when the mammoths merge?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
An examination of a mammoth's stomach contents showed that it had eaten ferns and plants, if not of a tropical type, of at least a temperate type.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
One of these mammoths costs over £1,000,000.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He finds a large herd of adult female mammoths.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
All the mammoths are thriving on the grassland diet.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
They ride large beasts resembling mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/mammoth##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 8:54:33