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").
双语例句
1. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
美国在该地区拥有足够的火力发动持续的空中打击。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Mount Unzen has been spewing out volcanic ash, gas, and rock today.
云仙山今天一直在向外喷涌火山灰、气体和火山岩。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Mount Marcy is the highest mountain in the Adirondacks.
马西山是阿迪朗达克山脉中最高的山。
来自柯林斯例句
4. the first ascent of Mount Everest
首次攀登珠穆朗玛峰
来自《权威词典》
5. The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.