a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill 土墩；小丘；小山岗 a Bronze Age burial mound 青铜时代的坟冢 The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound. 这座城堡建在一个天然的绿草如茵的小丘上。
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc2The church stands on a high mound just outside the village. 教堂就矗立在村外的一处高地上。 a small tree on a grassy mound 葱翠的山冈上的一棵小树
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- large
- low
- …
- on a/the mound
- the foot of a mound
- the top of a mound
a pile 一堆 a small mound of rice/sand 一小堆米／沙子
Extra Examplesa neat mound of leaves 匀整的一堆树叶 He covered the mound of rice on his plate with the sauce. 他往堆在盘子里的米饭上浇了调味汁。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
- mound of something (informal)
a large amount of something 许多；大量 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
(in baseball 棒球 the small raised area where the player who throws the ball (called the pitcher) stands 投球区土墩
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence’.