喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a mountain as a huge mass of land rising steep and high into the sky — so big you have to look up, so big it feels hard to get over. From that one picture the word stretches two ways: to any enormous pile or amount that towers like a peak, and to anything that feels as huge and hard to conquer as a mountain in your path.

可以把 mountain 想成一大塊陡峭的土地，高高聳進天空——大到你得抬頭看，大到讓人覺得難以翻越。核心畫面比較像…更多收起可以把 mountain 想成一大塊陡峭的土地，高高聳進天空——大到你得抬頭看，大到讓人覺得難以翻越。核心畫面比較像那座高聳擋在眼前的山頭。從這一個畫面，這個字往兩邊伸：一邊指任何堆得像山頭一樣高的『一大堆』，一邊指任何像擋路的山一樣巨大、難以跨越的東西。

From the picture

堆得像山的一大堆

借山頭『又高又大』的樣子去形容數量：東西堆得老高，多到像一座山，眼前那一大堆讓人一看就覺得份量驚人。

a mountain of (a huge amount) · noun · A2

A huge amount of something, heaped up so high it looks like a hill.

一大堆

像山一樣難跨越的難關

借『山很難翻過去』的那一面：把巨大、難對付的問題或任務，想成擋在路上的一座山——大歸大，但靠著努力，山也不是真的翻不過去。

a mountain to climb · noun · A2

In the phrase 'a mountain to climb': a lot of hard work that someone must do to reach a goal.

艱鉅的任務

Also in this word

mountain (landform) · noun · A2

A very high area of land with steep sides, much higher than a hill.

山

原始詞典資料16 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。

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    A surname.

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    historicalThe Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.

Mountainnoun

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    rail-transportrailwaystransportA steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.

    • Western Pacific wisely devoted its design energies to the articulateds which produced most of its gross, left the 4-6-0's that came with the road plus a few secondhand Florida East Coast Mountains for its sparse passenger service.

mountainnoun/ˈmaʊn.tɪn/

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    An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.

    • Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
    • We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
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    Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.

    • He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.
    • There's still a mountain of work to do.
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    A difficult task or challenge.

    • Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
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    historicalWine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.

    • Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately.
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    slangA woman's large breast.

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    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe twenty-first Lenormand card.

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。