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In geography, a massif is a group of mountains that form one big, solid shape — more like one block of high land than a long thin line of peaks. The mountains in a massif share the same base, so they belong together as one mass. You see the word in place names, and in writing by and map-makers. Everyday English usually just says mountains or a mountain range. Though actually, people sometimes mix massif with massive, which only means “very big.” A massif is large, but the idea is the shape: one solid group.
山塊
組成Borrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, ultimately from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza), a barley-cake or lump of dough — so the picture is “one solid lump.”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
massifnoun/mæˈsiːf/
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A principal mountain mass.
- This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
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A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists.
- The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif.
- Some deposits of iron ore are scattered along the edges of the massif in south - central France.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。