Mount Everest

短语

珠穆朗玛峰

发音

UK /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹɪst/
US /ˌmaʊnt ˈɛv(ə)ɹəst/

词形变化

Mount Everests 复数 Mount Everests

别名

Everest Mt Everest Mt. Everest

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An endeavor that is very demanding yet rewarding; also, something which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome, the pinnacle, the ultimate.

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name
  1. 1.

    A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border of Solukhumbu district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the world's highest mountain above sea level.

    珠穆朗玛峰

    圣母峰

    额菲尔士峰

    埃菲尔士峰

    埃佛勒斯峰

词源

From mount + Everest, coined by the British army officer and Surveyor General of India Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878)—originally as Mont Everest—in a paper of March 1, 1856 to the Royal Geographical Society, after his predecessor George Everest (1790–1866): see the quotation. The name Mount Everest was used in a paper on October 27, 1856 by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894) and by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), the President of the Society, at a meeting of the Society on May 11, 1857 at which the two papers were read.

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