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rocky mountains

/rok-ee moun-tnz/US // ˈrɒk i ˈmaʊn tnz //

岩石山,岩石山区,岩石山脉,石山

Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : the chief mountain system in North America, extending from central New Mexico to northern Alaska. Highest peak, Denali, 20,300 feet.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Try these cocktails made with TINCUP—a whiskey made for the snowy Rocky Mountains.

  • From downtown Denver, you can see the snowcapped Rocky Mountains towering on the horizon to the west.

  • The water raging down that river supports 40 million people in seven states and Mexico, but it comes from melted snow accumulating high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

  • Our anticipation grew as we prepared to climb the mighty Rocky Mountains.

  • They seemed like a permanent part of the mindscape, the way mountains or rivers are part of the physical world.

  • Hitchcock was our mountains and our rivers, curled permanently into our brainpans.

  • So, Schmidt followed the gold rush to the El Paso mountains and claimed an area of mining land.

  • Aside from producing odors and mountains of trash, they increasingly produce power.

  • If you doubt that, look at the history of these Northern Rocky Mountain states with the recently delisted wolf.

  • Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.

  • The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.

  • As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.

  • On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.

  • At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the south wind shall blow.

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