核心畫面

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.

可以想成一塊地悄悄鼓起來,比四周都高一點——沒有山那麼高、那麼多岩石,就是一個圓圓的、走得上去的隆起。這個「凸起的高更多收起可以想成一塊地悄悄鼓起來,比四周都高一點——沒有山那麼高、那麼多岩石,就是一個圓圓的、走得上去的隆起。這個「凸起的高地」就是整個字的核心畫面;其他意思要嘛是這個「往上爬」的縮小版,要嘛是剛好坐落在這種高地上的有名地點。

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

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

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/

  • 1

    Capitol Hill; the US Congress

  • 2

    Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country

  • 3

    A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.

    • Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.
  • 4

    A number of places:

  • 5

    A number of places:

  • 6

    A number of places:

  • 7

    A number of places:

  • 8

    A number of places:

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A number of places:

  • 10

    A number of places:

hillnoun/hɪl/

  • 1

    An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

    • The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
    • So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • 2

    A sloping road.

    • You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
  • 3

    A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

  • 4

    A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

    • a hill of corn or potatoes
  • 5

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe pitcher’s mound.

  • 6

    The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

hillverb/hɪl/

  • 1

    To form into a heap or mound.

    • Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
  • 2

    To heap or draw earth around plants.

    • After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。