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mammoth adj.巨大的；庞大的n.长毛象；猛犸 (1) 修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。(2) 庞大的野牛群出没在这些平原上。(3) 相比之下，中国的长城真是个庞然大物。(4) 这只长毛象刚满月就不幸身亡。(5) 猛犸掉进冰河裂缝里了。 The word mammoth is a pretty new one, dating back only to around 1700. It was first only a noun from the Russian word mammot, meaning “earth,” and used to name the newly-discovered fossilized creature that was thought to have burrowed in the earth like a mole. The word, a rare Russian contribution to English, was not used as an adjective until around 1800—notably when President Thomas Jefferson used it to describe a very large cheese.

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英 ['mæməθ] 美 ['mæməθ] (1) Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.(2) The mammoth buffalo roamed the plains.(3) By comparison, the Great Wall in China is a mammoth presence.(4) The woolly mammoth was a month old when she died.(5) The mammoth fell into an ice crevasse. The adjective mammoth is a great way to describe something really, really big, like those huge woolly elephants they’re still finding in the melting glaciers. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（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.   [usu ADJ n]  [emphasis]...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。2[N-COUNT 可数名词]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.

英语单词	mammoth
英美音标	英 ['mæməθ] 美 ['mæməθ]
中文释义	adj.巨大的；庞大的 n.长毛象；猛犸
英语例句	(1) Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job. (2) The mammoth buffalo roamed the plains. (3) By comparison, the Great Wall in China is a mammoth presence. (4) The woolly mammoth was a month old when she died. (5) The mammoth fell into an ice crevasse.
中文例句	(1) 修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。 (2) 庞大的野牛群出没在这些平原上。 (3) 相比之下，中国的长城真是个庞然大物。 (4) 这只长毛象刚满月就不幸身亡。 (5) 猛犸掉进冰河裂缝里了。
vocabulary简明	The adjective mammoth is a great way to describe something really, really big, like those huge woolly elephants they’re still finding in the melting glaciers.
vocabulary扩展	The word mammoth is a pretty new one, dating back only to around 1700. It was first only a noun from the Russian word mammot, meaning “earth,” and used to name the newly-discovered fossilized creature that was thought to have burrowed in the earth like a mole. The word, a rare Russian contribution to English, was not used as an adjective until around 1800—notably when President Thomas Jefferson used it to describe a very large cheese.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（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. [usu ADJ n] [emphasis] ...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。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]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.

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