mammoth

US /ˈmæm.əθ/
UK /ˈmæm.əθ/
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猛獁象

a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with long curved tusks

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The museum has a skeleton of a woolly mammoth.
博物館裡有一具長毛猛獁象的骨架。
Scientists are studying the DNA of a frozen mammoth.
科學家正在研究一頭冰凍猛獁象的DNA。
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巨大的, 龐大的

very large; huge

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The company undertook a mammoth task of rebuilding the entire system.
公司承擔了重建整個系統的艱鉅任務。
It was a mammoth effort to move all the furniture by hand.
徒手搬運所有家具是一項艱鉅的工作。