mammoth
英 [ˈmæməθ]
美 [ˈmæməθ]
n. 猛犸(象); 毛象
adj. 极其巨大的; 庞大的
复数:mammoths
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牛津词典
noun
- 猛犸(象);毛象
an animal like a large elephant covered with hair, that lived thousands of years ago and is now extinct
adj.
- 极其巨大的;庞大的
extremely large
- a mammoth task
巨大的任务 - a financial crisis of mammoth proportions
极其严重的金融危机
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (改变)巨大的,重大的;(任务)庞大的,艰巨的
You can use mammoth to emphasize that a task or change is very large and needs a lot of effort to achieve.
- ...the mammoth task of relocating the library...
图书馆搬迁的艰巨任务 - You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there...
资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。 - This mammoth undertaking was completed in 18 months.
这项艰巨的任务在18个月内完成了。
- 猛犸,毛象(一种史前动物)
A mammoth was an animal like an elephant, with very long tusks and long hair, that lived a long time ago but no longer exists.
双语例句
- You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there
资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
- This mammoth undertaking was completed in 18 months.
这项艰巨的任务在18个月内完成了。
- They made a gigantic [ huge; mammoth] demonstration against the government.
他们举行了一次声势浩大的反政府示威。
- There was no place for the software mammoth in a tech world designed and dominated by apple.
在这个由苹果公司(Apple)设计并主宰的科技世界里,就是没有这家软件巨头的一席之地。
- Sandberg has had a mammoth year.
桑德伯格刚刚度过了非常充实的一年。
- You might already have seen a mammoth in the movies.
你或许已经在电影中见过猛犸。
- A letter from this worried six-year old has sparked a mammoth operation.
这位担忧的六岁小孩的信引起了巨大的行动。
- I think he had me pinned up against a woolly mammoth.
我想他拿我和长毛象比较。
- Shuffle, bomb or clear away cubes with power-ups or link them for mammoth, point-boosting explosions!
随机播放,炸弹或清除与权力立方体式窗口或其链接的庞大,点提高爆炸!
- I should probably be with a mammoth.
我也许该和另一只猛犸一起。
- However, learning the base class library is also a mammoth challenge, simply because it is so large.
但是,学习基类库也是一个巨大的挑战,因为它太大了。
- The mammoth buffalo roamed the plains.
庞大的野牛群出没在这些平原上。
- Imagine the death of a mammoth.
想象一下这只猛犸的死。
- She is the most perfectly preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered.
它是至今发现的长毛象中保存最为完善的一只。
- A case in point is the mammoth global derivatives markets.
这里的一个佐证就是庞大的全球衍生品市场。
- I can't wait to get my claws in that mammoth.
我的爪子都快等不及要撕烂那毛象了!
- By comparison, the Great Wall in China is a mammoth presence.
相比之下,中国的长城真是个庞然大物。
- This book has unfolded the millennium latter mammoth humanity interspace epic poem!
本书展现了千年后一场波澜壮阔的人类星际史诗!
- So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth.
极度大的广阔的,以至于使人想起巨人或庞然大物的。
- His Lehman report was a mammoth task involving e-mails, reports, data sets and interviews.
撰写雷曼报告是一项任务量巨大的工作,涉及电子邮件、报告、数据库和面谈。
- "What was a mammoth like?" the children asked their teacher curiously.
“猛犸象是什么样子的?”孩子们好奇地问他们的老师。
- They knew the mammoth because they have left us strikingly effective pictures of that creature.
他们熟悉猛犸,因为他们留下的那种动物的画像令我们印象深刻。
- Yes there is some extinction, like the Mammoth, but genetic diversity is continually increasing.
是有一些物种灭绝,如猛犸,但是遗传的多样性正在不断的增加。
- What if I am the last mammoth?
如果我是最后的猛犸象怎么办?
- This tiny mammoth's body was found in May of2007.
这头长毛象的小小躯体在2007年五月为人发现。
- Two mammoth experts study the place where she was dug up and explain more about the area.
两名长毛象专家研究它的出土之地,并且对该地区进行更进一步的解读。
- Of course, the not so hidden subtext of all this was two mammoth wealth transfers.
当然,这一说法的明显的潜台词是两种巨大的财富变换形式。
- Be that as it may, when's the last time you saw another mammoth?
尽管如此,你上一次见到别的长毛象是在什么时候?
- North American mastodon; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon.
北美洲的乳齿象;在一些分类中被当作猛犸而不是乳齿象。
英英释义
noun
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene
adj
- so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
- a gigantic redwood
- gigantic disappointment
- a mammoth ship
- a mammoth multinational corporation
Synonym: gigantic