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mountain English

Meaning mountain meaning

What does mountain mean?

mountain

a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, wad) (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent a batch of letters a deal of trouble a lot of money he made a mint on the stock market see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos it must have cost plenty a slew of journalists a wad of money

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Topics mountain topics

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Simple sentences

They hate him because he gives them a mountain of homework.
The mountain is covered with snow.
It's dangerous to climb this mountain.
This mountain is among the highest in the world.
We could not see the top of the mountain.
On this side of the mountain, it doesn't rain much.
We couldn't see the top of the mountain.
A mountain chain protects the valley from the northern winds.
Seen against the sky, the mountain looked really beautiful.
We had native guides on our trip to the mountain.
We saw a mountain in the distance.
The party did not succeed in climbing the mountain.
The upper part of the mountain is covered with snow.
Betty has climbed the mountain three times.
At last, they reached the top of the mountain.
Let's climb that mountain to see it.
Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.
The treasure is believed to lie hidden somewhere in the mountain.
The city is at the foot of the mountain.
The mountain rises above the plain.
We think it is very dangerous that you're climbing the mountain alone.
We stood on the top of the mountain.
Mountain bike racing has caught on with young Japanese in the past few years.
At length, we reached the top of the mountain.
We call the mountain Tsurugidake.
The mountain attracts many climbers.
The mountain is more than 3,000 meters above sea level.
We have snow on the mountain all the year round.

Movie subtitles

And who pulled Frodo up the side of the mountain? Just think about however to- I remember now!
Not so fast Mormons, you shall not pass my mountain!
Down from the mountain look who comes: the American warlord Brigham Young!
Mountain people.?
Bitch of a mountain. Wolf Creek Pass.
In the mountain cabin.
The devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.
These two had wandered over the mountain from a neighboring parish.
Meanwhile Black Larson stumbled onto Big Jim's mountain of gold.
Treachery awaited Big Jim at his mountain of gold.
A day or so later in the Recorder's office, Big Jim tried to convince the assayers that he had a mountain of gold.
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN premiered on December 17th, 1926.
A jubilant spring climbs higher up the mountain. And a joyous Diotima immerses herself in it.
The imposing pinnacle of the highest mountain rises before her.
Almighty Allah will send a new prophet who'll come down the mountain and throw the infidels and traitors into the sea!
Bitch of a mountain.
There's two snow-capped mountain ranges with peaks lost in the sky.
And tell that great white mountain hello for me.
Yonder stands the great white mountain. And down below lies the valley I've told you about.
Yes, but you've got accordions, hippopotamuses, wrenches, mountain goats, and.
I'll be comin' round the mountain with a banjo on my knee.
The mountain that looks like a skull.
You told me. - Skull Mountain.
Skull Mountain, the wall.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
I fight crowds in department stores, dying of the heat, killing myself trying to get a nice mountain outfit together!
It's a mountain barrier that divides the Africa we know. from a country that no white man has ever seen and come back, except myself.
The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human monster so fearful and so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised.
I think it's just one problem piling on top of a Mountain of other problems.
Mountain ash in his medication.
Mountain ash!
Bitch of a mountain. Wolf Creek Pass?
You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?
Yes, but you've got accordions hippopotamuses, wrenches mountain goats, and.
My people all afraid of the mountain.
Hail Freedonia, don't you cry for me. I'll be comin' round the mountain with a banjo on my knee.
That's a mountain!
Not in mountain climbing.
Well, we got a mountain in Texas.
There was a massacre on Superstition Mountain.
You go over the mountain everyday, travelling 13 miles to see your grandsons, right?

News and current affairs

As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
I felt that a historical circle was being closed: the ideas of the Polish March and the Prague Spring, the ideas of our mountain meetings, were becoming political facts.
The available evidence is that the many thousands of men, women, and children who have sought refuge in the Sinjar mountain range of northern Iraq are indeed at risk.
Rather than confront the political obstacles, Europe's leaders are hiding behind a mountain of pious, nonsensical rhetoric.
Their second homes are a retreat where they will spend only a fraction of the year, and recently pristine mountain ridges and ocean cliffs are being dotted with new homes to meet the demand.
Silicon Valley or Demand Mountain?
Instead, build a Demand Mountain, and the innovators will come.
China's heavy floods in recent years are partly the result, it seems, of the excessive melting of mountain snows on the Tibetan Plateau, which was caused by higher temperatures.
A large portion of the indigenous populations quickly succumbed to diseases and hardships brought by the European colonizers, but many survived, often in dominant numbers, as in Bolivia and much of the highlands of the Andes mountain region.
The Washington mountain has labored and brought forth less than a mouse.
Russia's attempts to subdue the Chechen insurrection are but another bloody chapter in a two hundred year colonial policy that began with Russia's subjugation of Caucasian mountain peoples in a cruel war that lasted for thirty years.
On top of all this, rapidly growing public debt implies that new entrants to the labor market will sooner or later face a mountain of taxes.
The search for happiness should not be confined to the beautiful mountain kingdom of Bhutan.
It is one thing to guide people up a mountain; it is another to lead them to the edge of a cliff.
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods - the result of deforestation higher up.
America is losing its international competitiveness, neglecting its poor - one in five American children is trapped in poverty - and leaving a mountain of debt to its young.
All of this means that when California slumps, residents simply leave for the mountain states; when manufacturing jobs disappear in the upper Midwest, people migrate to new jobs in Texas.
The sun was high above white-crowned Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when my guide pointed down the gorge at the brown waters churning thousands of feet below.
But we need to pay as much attention to the people living in the mountain's shadow.
Moreover, Japan's private sector - its households and companies - sits atop a mountain of savings, which is mostly used to purchase JGBs.
After the wave passed, a chaotic mountain of debris was all that was left of Kamaishi, Japan's oldest steel-manufacturing town, in Iwate prefecture.
But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain; after all, the descent has been stopped.
In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain-ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.
China may point to the mountain of US Treasury bonds that it has bought up, thereby helping to sustain America's budget deficit.
First and foremost, a mountain of mutual distrust will need to be overcome.

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