mound

• n. 堆；高地；坟堆；护堤
• vt. 堆起；筑堤
• vi. 积成堆

来自中古英语mound,防御土墙，围墙，来自古英语mund,手，保护，监护权，来自PIE*man,手，词源同manual,manipulate.后引申词义土墩，土丘，词义可能受到mount影响。

mound (n.)

1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.

mound (v.)

1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c. 1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.

1. The table was a mound of paper and books.

桌上堆满了文件和书。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a Bronze Age burial mound

青铜时代的坟冢

来自《权威词典》

3. The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

勘探者爬上土丘去勘测周围的土地.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. There is a mound of papers on my desk.

在我的办公桌上有一大堆文件.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The mound can be used as our screen.

这个土丘可做我们的掩蔽物.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》