c. 1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.
mount (n.2)
"that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount (v.). The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.
mount (n.1)
"hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cognates: Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").
雙語例句
1. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
美國在該地區擁有足夠的火力發動持續的空中打擊。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Mount Unzen has been spewing out volcanic ash, gas, and rock today.
雲仙山今天一直在向外噴湧火山灰、氣體和火山岩。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Mount Marcy is the highest mountain in the Adirondacks.
馬西山是阿迪朗達克山脈中最高的山。
來自柯林斯例句
4. the first ascent of Mount Everest
首次攀登珠穆朗瑪峰
來自《權威詞典》
5. The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.