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mountaintop

/moun-tn-top/US // ˈmaʊn tnˌtɒp //

山顶,山顶上,山顶上的,山巅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the top or summit of a mountain.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : situated at the top or summit of a mountain: a mountaintop house.

Examples

  • From high mountaintops and ridges, we had expansive views of mountains and valleys in every direction.

  • The range of conditions I need a pair of pants to perform in includes everything from spending time on a mountaintop in minus-30-degree temperatures to sitting in front of the fire at home.

  • Some programs still haven’t made it back to the mountaintop — such as USC, which has tried Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian and now Clay Helton since Pete Carroll left for the NFL.

  • They’ll hire a new GM, find a new coach, swap out some players, send draft picks flying around the league — all in an effort to climb the mountaintop for the first time since 1995.

  • The state spent more than $10 million to buy the land, build a bridge over the Cumberland River and run a three-lane, paved road up to the mountaintop, where the industrial park would be located.

  • Set on a mountaintop, the complex is layered, with platforms, walls, and other areas where people line up to watch those entering.

  • Safe within his mountaintop fortress, Escobar grew bolder and more unscrupulous.

  • Listen, it takes a lot of effort to twirl energetically on a mountaintop and make it look good.

  • She made an appearance at the February 2009, I Love Mountains rally in Frankfurt, Ky. to speak out against mountaintop removal.

  • In the excerpt below, they detail the effects of coal mining in West Virginia, a state destroyed by mountaintop removal also.

  • We have dared the fiery desert and the frozen mountaintop, the demons of thirst, starvation, and savage warfare.

  • Then here, on this mountaintop, with the world below me and nothing above me but the sun, I shall live my own truth.

  • Every nook and corner, every mountaintop and valley is shrouded in sorrow for this crime against the nation.

  • When we came down from the cold mountaintop, my mind was made up: mathematics would be abandoned.

  • That was the foundation of that persistent praying and sevenfold watching on the mountaintop.