Everest

动词 v. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈɛvəɹɪst/|/ˈɛvɹɪst/    美 /ˈɛvəɹəst/|/ˈɛvɹəst/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.
    — Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.
专有名词
  1. Ellipsis of Mount Everest.; A mountain on the border of Tibet, China and Nepal. uncountable
    — One day in the late spring of 1924 an observer on the East Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Everest, staring up at the summit of the mountain through a telescope, saw the morning mists part around the summit, and saw there two black figures climbing steadily upwards. One of them was an Oxford undergraduate, the other was Mallory. They were, at that moment, at a height of 28,400 feet, higher than any man has ever climbed before and only six hundred feet below the top.
  2. Ellipsis of Mount Everest.; Epitome, ultimate countable
  3. A surname. countable

词形变化

Everests plural Everests present,singular,third-person Everesting participle,present Everested participle,past Everested past

词汇关系

衍生词
Everester Everesting Everest syndrome Mount Everest

词源

词源 1
Mountain named after Sir George Everest. The surname may be from Norman French Devereux, meaning from Évreux.
词源 2
From Everesting.
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