mammoth
mammoth 英 [ˈmæməθ] 美 [ˈmæməθ]
n. 长毛象；猛犸象；庞然大物 adj. 巨大的，庞大的；猛犸似的
名词复数:mammoths
- The adjective mammoth is a great way to describe something really, really big, like those huge woolly elephants they’re still finding in the melting glaciers.
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- n. 长毛象；猛犸象；庞然大物
- adj. 巨大的，庞大的；猛犸似的
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1. One of the two mammoth museums.
两个猛犸象博物馆中的一个。
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2. Any of them might conceal a mammoth graveyard or the next mummified Lyuba, they point out.
牧民们指出，某个湖泊里就可能藏着猛犸象墓地或者下一个木乃伊一样的卢芭。
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3. Partial remains of five mastodons, three Ice Age bison and a juvenile Columbian mammoth, as well as plant matter and insects, have also been found.
同时发现的还有五头乳齿象、三头冰河期野牛和一只少年哥伦比亚猛犸象的遗骸，以及植物和昆虫。
- mammoth (n.) 1706, from Russian mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia (compare Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. As an adjective, "gigantic," from 1802; in this sense "the word appears to be originally American" [Thornton, "American Glossary"], and its first uses are in derogatory accounts of the cheese wheel, more than 4 feet in diameter, sent to President Jefferson by the ladies of the Baptist congregation in Cheshire, Massachusetts, as a present, engraved with the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Federalist editors mocked the affair, and called up the word mammoth (known from Peale's exhibition) to characterize it.
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