the Hill• In the morning it looks like a smokyhaze is hanging over the hills.• Once you start walking regularly you can vary your walks by going to the park, the beach or the hills.• We were known as the Hill people.• He walked to the office, hearing a series of shudderingbooms from the hill.• The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill.• They stopped at the top of the hill and sat down.• We wanted to go inside the church on the hill but he told us it had to be kept locked because of vandals.• And there was no one on the hill.
4over the hillOLD/NOT NEWno longer young, and therefore no longer attractive or good at doing things 不再年轻;人老珠黄
Kathleen thinks she’s over the hill, but she’s only 32.
凯瑟琳觉得自己已经老了,可是她才32岁。
Examples from the Corpus
over the hill• At 32, many considered Ali to be over the hill as a professionalboxer.• At 32, many considered Ali to be over the hill.• In the morning it looks like a smokyhaze is hangingover the hills.• Mývatn is over the hill, past more vile-smelling industrialdelights.• He said vandals had cut through another part of the fence just over the hill.• Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere.• So Flora put on her greenwellies and Jane her black ones, and they marched out over the hills.• When wanderingover the hills we met a shepherd, exchangedcourtesies, and offered him a glass.
5.it doesn’t amount to a hill of beansAmerican EnglishAmE spokenUNIMPORTANT it is not important 这无关紧要
COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
steep 陡峭的
She pushed her bicycle up the steep hill.
她推着自行车登上陡峭的山坡。
rolling/gentle hills (=hills with slopes that are not steep) 绵延起伏/平缓的山丘
He loved the green rolling hills of Dorset.
他喜欢多塞特青翠起伏的山峦。
a long hill 长长的山路
The bus started going up the long hill into town.
公共汽车开始爬上长长的山路进城。
verbs
climb a hill (=walk or drive up a hill) 爬山
She climbed the hill out of the village.
她爬上了村外的那座山。
go down a hill 下山
It's best to use a low gear when you are going down steep hills.
下陡坡时最好用低速挡。
phrases
the top of a hill 山顶
The view from the top of the hill was beautiful.
山顶景色旖旎。
the brow/crest of a hill (=the top part of a hill) 山顶
A tank appeared over the brow of the hill.
山顶出现了一辆坦克。
the bottom/foot of a hill 山脚
nThe house was at the bottom of a hill.
hill + NOUN
a hill town 山城
the hill towns of Tuscany
托斯卡纳的山城
hill country (=a rural area where there are a lot of hills) 丘陵地区
steep hill• He was rolling away from her, rolling for ever down a steep hill.• Set into a steep hill green with trees, they look out upon the sea.• It stretches up a steep hill and overlooks the rivers Tay and Earn.• Replacing the bowls, they pedalled on down the steep hill and up the next.• Coal for the mill's steamengine was carried up the steep hill on donkeys.• After lunch, he and Barnabas walked up the steep hill to Fernbank.• Wearing a pair of tennisshoes, he walked up the steep hill with the energy of a young mountain climber.• But that's through high trees and up steep hills.