but the hills的意思|示意

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 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。

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 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。

"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。”

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。”