| 释义 |
moundmound /maʊnd/ ●○○ noun [countable] THESAURUSlarge amount/mass► pilea)a large mass of things collected together or thrown together: He swept the leaves into a pile.b)a neat collection of several things of the same kind placed on top of each other: The folded laundry was separated into three piles. ► heap a large messy pile of things: A heap of clothes lay on the floor. ► mound a pile of something with a round shape: He came back from the buffet with a huge mound of food on his plate. ► stack a neat pile of things: There was a stack of books in the middle of the table. ► drift a large pile of snow, sand, etc. that has been blown by the wind: The car slid into a ten-foot snow drift by the side of the road. 1a pile of dirt, sand, stones, etc. that looks like a small hill: a burial moundmound of a mound of dirt► see thesaurus at pile12a large pile of something: mound of There’s a mound of papers on my desk.3the small hill that the pitcher stands on in the game of baseball |