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单词 mountain mass
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mountain mass
mountain mass n. (a) a huge mass (cf. sense B.); (b) a large mass of rock; (c) a mass of mountains, a massif.
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1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xviii. 419 Now, wherefore liv'st, and why wast ever born Thou mountain-mass of earth!
1808 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. III. xi. 255 A Stock~werk, is a mountain-mass of greater or less extent, traversed in all directions by a very great number of small veins.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 433/1 The mountain-masses in North America.
1918 A. Huxley Defeat of Youth 21 Soon will they lift towards the summer sky Their mountain-mass of clotted greenery.
1993 Scotland's Nat. Heritage Sept. 7/1 The central mountain mass of Beinn Eighe was declared as Britain's first National Nature Reserve in 1951.
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