High-rise buildings are marching across the flatlands, and swish malls are springing up, offering global favorites and local ones .

提供全球知名品牌和当地老字号的高楼大厦遍布平地，时髦而昂贵的商场也拔地而起。

youdao

We have not yet left the Flatlands, my hasty friend.

我们还没有离开平地呢，我急切的朋友。

youdao

I live on an east-facing hill and often the frost just rolls down to the flatlands.

我的住处东面临山，在那里时常有霜冻刚滚落到平地上。

youdao

We might be stuck in the flatlands for a long while.

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