• n. 堆；高地；墳堆；護(hù)堤
• vt. 堆起；筑堤
• vi. 積成堆

來自中古英語mound,防御土墻，圍墻，來自古英語mund,手，保護(hù)，監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)，來自PIE*man,手，詞源同manual,manipulate.后引申詞義土墩，土丘，詞義可能受到mount影響。

mound (n.)

1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.

mound (v.)

1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c. 1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.

1. The table was a mound of paper and books.

桌上堆滿了文件和書。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a Bronze Age burial mound

青銅時代的墳冢

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

勘探者爬上土丘去勘測周圍的土地.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. There is a mound of papers on my desk.

在我的辦公桌上有一大堆文件.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The mound can be used as our screen.

這個土丘可做我們的掩蔽物.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》