| 单词 | mesa |
| 释义 | mesa (once / 6169 pages) n A mesa is a flat-topped hill most commonly found in the Southwest part of the U.S.. Its sides are steep all around so that it looks like a massive table. Mesa comes from the Latin mensa meaning "table," which is very much what a mesa looks like. A mesa is formed when the weaker horizontal rocks around a big formation start to erode and fall away, leaving stronger rocks standing in a flat-topped hill. Grand Mesa in Western Colorado is the largest mesa in the world, with an area of 500 square miles. That's bigger than all of Hong Kong! WORD FAMILYmesa: mesas USAGE EXAMPLESThe trenches mechanically displaced tons of desert sandstone across a natural indentation in the mesa. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Later, I spotted seven bighorn sheep, as still as statues as they balanced effortlessly on a precipitous mesa face, a startling image. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) She began to finance Charles Ross’s “Star Axis,” a stellar observatory, of sorts, still in progress today on a mesa in New Mexico. New York Times(Sep 16, 2016) n flat tableland with steep edges the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water Syn|Hyper table plateau, tableland a relatively flat highland Mesa (once / 11749 pages) n WORD FAMILY Mesa: Mesas USAGE EXAMPLESThis week: A salute to African American poet Langston Hughes, a classic Clifford Odets drama, and “Rent” rolls into Costa Mesa on its 20th-anniversary tour. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) City officials held a dedication ceremony for the new Mesa Regional Dispatch Center on Thursday. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) The Frye Mesa Reservoir will change its daily trout bag limit to two. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix Exp city, metropolis, urban center a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts |
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