| 词汇 | mammoth |
| 释义 | mammoth adjective uk /ˈmæm.əθ/ us /ˈmæm.əθ/ extremely large: 巨大的，庞大的 Cleaning up the city-wide mess is going to be a mammoth task.清扫全市范围内的垃圾是一项艰巨的任务。 It's a mammoth undertaking - are you sure you have the resources to cope?这是项艰巨的任务——你确信有能力完成吗？ Synonyms enormous gigantic huge jumbo greater than the average size or amount bigThey live in a big house in the country. largeA large number of people were crowded into the room. greatThe party was a great success. enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs. Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly mammoth noun[ C ] uk /ˈmæm.əθ/ us /ˈmæm.əθ/ a type of large elephant, now extinct, that was covered in hair and had tusks猛犸（象），毛象（现已绝种） SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GettyImages Wild mammals aardvark anteater armadillo Bactrian bandicoot grizzly grizzly bear hedgehog hippopotamus honey possum pangolin peccary pine marten platypus polar bear stoat sugar glider tamandua tapir Tasmanian devil mammoth | American Dictionarymammoth adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈmæm·əθ/ extremely large: Building the dam was a mammoth construction project. Examples of mammothmammoth Is it safe to attract the mammoths without seeing to that? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the ice age had occurred over a long perod of time, would not the mammoths have drifted south? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An air encounter between two fleets of these aerial mammoths can be more easily imagined than described. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since 1968, mammoths of more than 150,000 tons at sea have multiplied by five. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may not be mammoths or dinosaurs, but they have certainly proved to be sharks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Vegetation was found in the stomachs of mammoths. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are a tiny nation, and neither in manpower nor resources can we begin to challenge the two mammoths to left and right of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She has tracked down both mice and mammoths with considerable deft ability and skill. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will deal with one or two of the modest mice or evil mammoths. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What happens when the mammoths merge? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An examination of a mammoth's stomach contents showed that it had eaten ferns and plants, if not of a tropical type, of at least a temperate type. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of these mammoths costs over £1,000,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He finds a large herd of adult female mammoths. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All the mammoths are thriving on the grassland diet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They ride large beasts resembling mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of mammoth These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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