凸起的高地
最直接的一家:實際的小山,以及你在路上遇到的那段「上坡」——其實就是把小山的斜面搬到路面上。
a hill (elevated land) · noun · A2
An area of land higher than the ground around it, but lower than a mountain.
小山/丘
Picture a piece of ground that quietly swells up higher than everything around it — not as tall or rocky as a mountain, just a rounded rise you could walk up. That single bump of raised land is the whole word; everything else is either a smaller version of that climb or a famous spot that sits on one.
Three branches
凸起的高地
最直接的一家:實際的小山,以及你在路上遇到的那段「上坡」——其實就是把小山的斜面搬到路面上。
a hill (elevated land) · noun · A2
An area of land higher than the ground around it, but lower than a mountain.
小山/丘
坐落在山丘上的名地
從「凸起的高地」延伸到「蓋在這種高地上、後來變得很有名的地點」,整個地名乾脆就用 the Hill 來代稱。
the Hill (US Congress) · noun · A2
the Hill — Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. government makes laws (American English).
國會山莊
由山坡延伸的慣用語
這一家不是新的字義,而是把「爬到山頂、再走下坡」的畫面凝固成固定說法,意思要整句一起記。
over the hill · noun · A2
over the hill — no longer young, and so thought to be past one's best (a joking, informal phrase).
走下坡/過了顛峰
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Hillname/hɪl/
Capitol Hill; the US Congress
Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.
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hillnoun/hɪl/
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
A sloping road.
A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe pitcher’s mound.
The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
hillverb/hɪl/
To form into a heap or mound.
To heap or draw earth around plants.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。