You could say,for example, that a bad idea is not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But it had rows of seats like that, usually made over a hill or dug into the ground in some way.

但是观众席的结构很相似，通常建在山坡上或挖入地下。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

which is right on the top of a big hill.

它就在一座大山丘的顶端。

时间开始的地方 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, which is held every four years at Fort A.P.Hill army base.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Look again at the sentence that I just read, the last lines: Soon had his crew Op'nd into the Hill a spacious wound And dig'd out ribs of Gold."

再看一下我刚刚读过的句子，在最后几行：,不久，他带去的人马,凿开了那座山，画出一条很大的伤口,挖出黄金的肋条“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Just two blocks down the hill from that great equestrian statue of George Washington, the Founder, you could find a huge slave jail owned by Hector Davis.

距离奠基者乔治·华盛顿巨大的骑马雕像,往山下两个街区,你会发现赫克托·戴维斯,拥有的一个巨大的奴隶监狱

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A huge form that looks like a hill or wave takes up an entire room of the museum.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The same is true in a general way of what we find in the royal palace up on top of the hill at Mycenae, and so what is perfectly clear is the people who ruled these places were enormously powerful, at least locally, and wealthy.

与这一事实吻合的是,我们在迈锡尼城山顶发现的皇家宫殿,可以确信,统治这些地方的人,在当地具有无上的权利和财富

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He was a member of the hip-hop group called the Fugees with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel Samuel Michel, also known as Pras.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

And I worked with that account book, because one of the two slaves I write about in this new book called A Slave No More I publish their two narratives was indeed a young 14-year-old teenager, sold out of North Carolina--from Snow Hill, North Carolina, he was sold in 1860 to Hector Davis in Richmond.

我研究过这本账簿,因为我在这本新著《从奴隶到自由》中,引用了两名奴隶的自述,当时他们年仅十四岁,其中一个从北卡罗来纳州,从北卡罗来纳的斯诺希尔被卖掉,在1860年被卖给了,里士满的赫克托·戴维斯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The highest point of the softly curved hill measures about three meters tall, while the lowest point is only a few centimeters thick.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The top of each wave was a hill, from which the men could see, for a brief period, a wide area of shining sea.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

They made their lines along a partly-built railroad on the side of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Hundreds of men and women watched the fight from a hill near Centreville.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

At sunrise,Lee arrived on a hill outside the town of Appomattox Court House.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill studied the eating habits of American children over a 30-year period.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The runway is built on a flat stretch of land on a hill, with a sheer drop on both sides.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The president spoke against a backdrop of negotiations on Capitol Hill on proposed health care legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"So it's a stone person standing on a hill and that is the official symbol of these Olympic Games in Vancouver and up in Whistler.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Army commandos dropped from a helicopter examined the mangled and burnt wreckage on the slope of a heavily-forested hill, in an area infested with Maoist rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

At a hearing of the bipartisan Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both major U.S.political parties cited the November unemployment figure as welcome progress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Guide Joao Monteiro steps lightly amidst the ruins of a 16th century fort, on a hill overlooking the town of Cidade Velha on the southern coast of the Cape Verdean island of Santiago.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

White House officials also say Mr.Obama will go to Capitol Hill on Sunday to meet with Democratic lawmakers on efforts to advance health care reform, a key part of the president's economic plan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

"The scene here at the bottom of the hill where hundreds of houses have been destroyed by a landslide caused by the earthquake, the scene is one of rescue, it's just pure rescue effort that seems devoid of emotion,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

But I think Iran needs to do a much better job of respecting Iraq's sovereignty and they should start by ceasing to provide weaponry to various extremist groups in Iraq" Looking ahead to parliamentary elections in Iraq in January, Georgia Democrat David Scott and Ambassador Hill had this exchange about the question of a possible referendum on the U.S.military presence in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10