Mammoth

(noun.) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks.

整理:威廉

• Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One of these mammoth engines is capable of drawing a train of box cars, loaded with wheat, and more than a mile long, at a speed of ten miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The mammoth new aqueduct system by which water is carried from the Catskills to the Battery is another example of electricity as a source of power for large construction work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This mammoth vessel was too large and unwieldy for the uses for which she was designed, and proved a bad investment. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Huge shells filled with high explosives from these mammoth guns rapidly destroyed the most modern and powerful fortifications known at the beginning of the great war. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the Vienna Exposition in 1873, the first mammoth saw of this description was exhibited. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is a suggestion in some of the drawings of a fence of stakes in which a mammoth seems to be entangled. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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