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单词 mountainous
释义
mountainous
(mntɪnəs )
1. adjective
A mountainous place has a lot of mountains.
...the mountainous region of Campania.
2. adjective
If you refer to mountainous seas, you are emphasizing that the sea is very rough. [emphasis]
The fishermen set off in mountainous seas.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You use mountainous to emphasize that something is great in size, quantity, or degree. [emphasis]
In the lighted doorway stood the mountainous figure of a woman.
The plan is designed to reduce some of the company's mountainous debt.
Synonyms: huge, great, enormous, mighty  
Collocations:
mountainous area
The estate was made up of crop fields, pastures for livestock and a mountainous area to harvest wood.
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An emergency services spokesman was quoted by state television as saying that the plane had crashed in a mountainous area and caught fire.
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I haven't told them it's a wholly landlocked, mountainous area.
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Its location was a totally exposed, rugged, mountainous area out of town.
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Inland from the indented coastline, with its sheltered bays and secluded beaches, lies a rugged mountainous area of rainforests and waterfalls.
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mountainous landscape
It flew low on the 90-minute journey, hugging the mountainous landscape and skimming over forests as if anxious to avoid radar detection.
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Pilots find the mountainous landscape, often wreathed in fog, treacherous.
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Leading through abandoned villages, over ancient stone bridges and across remote peaks, the seven paths traverse a spectacular mountainous landscape, all the more lovely for being so unexpected.
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Bracing altitude 5,499 ft, mountainous landscape and densely clam forest make its very charming and attractive.
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The walk along the periphery of the lake provides excellent vistas of pine forests amidst mountainous landscape.
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mountainous terrain
I've often worked solo abroad, trekking across mountainous terrain or bunking down under cover and alone in strange cities.
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The tourist office there can give you a map of the more mountainous terrain north of town, where you can walk through wild mountain lavender.
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It links communications between ground units over huge distances and mountainous terrain.
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Since dawn yesterday, nine battalions of troops, including special forces, supported by helicopters, hunted for him in the mountainous terrain.
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Is this how trains move in mountainous terrain?
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 多山的
Japanese: 山の多い
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