mammoth
英 [ˈmæməθ] 美 [ˈmæməθ]

n.

[动]猛玛（象）；庞然大物；

adj.

庞大的，巨大的；

变形

复数：mammoths

英英释义

mammoth[ 'mæməθ ]

• n.any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
• adj.so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth

  "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation"

  同义词：gigantic

词组短语

woolly mammoth猛犸象；长毛象

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.
   修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
2. The mammoth buffalo roamed the plains.
   庞大的野牛群出没在这些平原上。
3. By comparison, the Great Wall in China is a mammoth presence.
   相比之下，中国的长城真是个庞然大物。

用作名词(n.)

1. The woolly mammoth was a month old when she died.
   这只长毛象刚满月就不幸身亡。
2. The mammoth fell into an ice crevasse.
   猛犸掉进冰河裂缝里了。

权威例句

Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe
MAMMOTH (matching molecular models obtained from theory): an automated method for model comparison.
Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth
Forest-killing diffuse CO2 emission at Mammoth Mountain as a sign of magmatic unrest
Multiplex amplification of the mammoth mitochondrial genome and the evolution of Elephantidae.
Pleistocene to Holocene extinction dynamics in giant deer and woolly mammoth
Volcanological perspectives on Long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Craters: several contiguous but discrete systems
A Death in the Pleistocene. (Book Reviews: Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe. The Story of Blue Babe.)
Depositional facies and aqueous-solid geochemistry of travertine-depositing hot springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellows...
Pliocene-Pleistocene incision of the Green River, Kentucky, determined from radioactive decay of cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in Mammoth...