He received rudimentary village schooling, but mostly he roamed his uncle's farm collecting the fossils that were so abundant in the rocks of the Cotswold hills.
他只在乡村学校接受了最基本的教育，但大部分时间都在叔叔的农场里游荡，收集科茨沃尔德丘陵中充裕的化石。
Boats could carry heavy weights, but canals could not cross hilly terrain; turnpikes could cross the hills, but the roadbeds could not stand up under great weights.
船可以运载重物，但运河不能穿越丘陵地带；高速公路可以翻山越岭，但路基承受不了巨大的重量。
On the island, there are sand hills without any plants, but there are forests with old trees, beautiful flowers and over a hundred lakes, too.
岛上有没有任何植物的沙丘，但也有古老树木的森林，美丽的花朵和一百多个湖泊。
Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms.
丘陵和山脉通常被认为是永恒的象征，成功抵御着自然的破坏力量，但其实它们从地质学角度讲往往是相对短暂的。
The allure of the hills was what brought me back to Colorado. But by then I believed (even when I forgot) that the key to my happiness lies in the inner landscape, not the outer one.
高山的诱惑引我回到科罗拉多，但那时我已确信(即使在我遗忘的时候)快乐的钥匙已经安卧在我的心中，而不是埋藏在那些外在的山丘之间。
The Beverly Hills employees had received no emergency training, but they performed magnificently.
贝弗利山庄的员工没有接受过应急训练，但是他们表现得非常出色。
Most of the place names of England had been bestowed not by officialdom, or in deference to knights, earls or Kings, but by ordinary peasants coping with flooded pasture or looking over the hills.
英国大部份的地名，不是由官方指定、或是纪念骑士公爵或国王，而是由那些应付淹水的牧场和看管山坡的平凡农民来命名。
"This makes sense if you think about a focused task like driving," Hills says, "where you have to pay attention, but to the right things — which may be changing all the time."
“这是言之有理的，如果你想想一个需要全神贯注的任务比如开车。”希尔斯说，“那是你需要集中注意力的时候，但集中在正确的地方，就是说注意力一直在改变目标。”
And the only available land was either high up on the hills above the city, where the views are unrivalled but the risk of landslides ever-present, or low down on the flood plains.
现成的地只有城市之上的山冈，虽然有无与伦比的视角，但是长期以来有山体滑坡的威胁；又或者只能把房子盖到洪水泛滥的平原地区。
But it hardly sounded reassuring when Makoto Iokibe, who heads the panel, spoke dreamily on its first day of creating "Hills of Hope" on which to site the new towns.
不过当行动组的负责人五百旗头真在创建“希望之山”，即新城镇的落址地点时，发表如同梦呓的演讲时，未来的情况究竟会怎样，仍然实在无法令人安心。
Arable lands arc few and limited; with but slight exceptions the prospect is a broad rich mass of grass and trees, mantling minor hills and dales within the major.
这儿的耕地很少，面积不大；这儿的景物除了很少的例外，只见那些广阔的生长茂盛的大片草地和树木覆盖着大山中间的山峦和小谷。
When we live, my lady, we always have to cross some rivers and hills, but we can always enjoy the sunshine.
人活着，就是要趟河过山，但我们还是可以享受那阳光的。
The railway owner, Jayne Hills, said: "it seems ludicrous that we could get coal from three miles away but instead are being forced to import it from 3, 000 miles away."
该铁路拥有者Jayne Hills表示：“这看上去很滑稽，我们能从3英里外获得煤但是却必须从3000英里外进口。”
"Small amounts of carbonate minerals have been detected on Mars before, " he explained. "[But this time] we're seeing a couple of large outcrops of rock poking through the soil of the Columbia Hills."
他解释说：“以前在火星上也探测到过少量的碳化矿物质，但是这次我们看到许多大块突兀的岩石冒出了哥伦比亚山的泥土。”
By the 1680s, British folklorist John Aubrey5 reported that "still in many places... they make fires on the hills: but the Civil Warres6 have put all these rites or customs quite out of fashion7."
17世纪80年代，英国民俗学者约翰·奥布里曾经报道：“还是有许多地方……人们在山上燃点篝火：但是内战使所有这些仪式或习俗基本上不再流行了。”
Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well.
冬季即将来临，这些山丘对周围的村庄具有毁灭性的威胁，因为大雨不仅会冲走土壤，而且还会引起严重的水灾。
But she said she should never forget the beautiful forest, the green hills, and the pretty little children who could swim in the water, although they had not fish's tails.
可是她永远忘记不了那壮丽的森林，那绿色的山，那些能够在水里游泳的可爱的小宝宝——虽然他们没有像鱼那样的尾巴。
They are all peppy, with plenty of power for accelerating onto the highway and passing slower cars going up hills, but they aren't blindingly fast.
他们都充满活力，在高速路上有充足的加速动力也会在山路上轻易地超过那些慢车，但是他们并不是一味的快。
Music and tales filled not only his home but the rolling fields and hills of South Armagh itself.
南阿马郡连绵起伏的山野田间到处都和他的家里一样充满了美妙的音乐和神奇的传说。
But when night fell, old and stiff as he was, he disappeared into the desert and surrounding hills.
尽管它老了，行动不便，可是一到晚上，就又消失在沙漠地里或周围的山上。
But today the streets of San Francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.
但时至今日，旧金山的街道四处延伸；遍布四十多座陡峭的小山，那些小山像悬崖峭壁般高耸于太平洋蓝色的海域之上。
Eventually I found an autobank in Croatia but not before climbing several steep hills - the first I had seen in four weeks of following the River Danube from Germany.
最后，在爬了好几个陡峭的山坡后，我终于在克罗地亚找到了一家自助银行，这是我从德国沿着多瑙河骑行四个星期后看到的第一家。
But I am lying by an infinity pool in the Hollywood Hills and Paris Hilton is giving me a pedicure, so I expect I will get on with my day as best I can.
但是我现在正躺在位于好莱坞山的巨大的游泳池边上，帕丽斯·希尔顿正在给我做足疗，所以我希望我能尽可能的恢复到我巅峰时期的状态。
Peter Mayle has done to that region what the Cannes Film Festival did to the Alpes Maritimes, but in mid-May the roads were empty and the hills and fields retained the look of ancient days.
如同戛纳电影节让法国阿尔卑斯地区的海滨诸省声名鹊起一样。但现在是五月中旬，路上依旧空空荡荡，山岗和田野依然保持着旧时的景象。
Peter Mayle has done to that region what the Cannes Film Festival did to the Alpes Maritimes, but in mid-May the roads were empty and the hills and fields retained the look of ancient days.
如同戛纳电影节让法国阿尔卑斯地区的海滨诸省声名鹊起一样。但现在是五月中旬，路上依旧空空荡荡，山岗和田野依然保持着旧时的景象。
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