When the sun shines on the almost straight-sided rocks, they look like bright shining wings rising out of a mountain of green trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

But a mountain of those who think that they are in power, who think that they are in control, who think that there's no need that they have it, they can't satisfy by spending money.

但实际上，这座山暗指那些自恃有权之人，那些自恃能够控制局面的人,认为金钱，可以买到一切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You know, you have a lot of the mountain, hillsides.

我们有很多山，山丘。

关于肌肉海滩 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Langley Collyer was buried under what appeared to be a mountain of old newspapers.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

the Israelites who are encamped at the foot of the mountain grow restless, and rebellious, and they demand of Aaron a god, because they don't know what's become of "this fellow Moses."

在山脚驻扎的犹太人渐渐焦躁不安，开始反叛，他们向亚伦索要神像，因为他们不知道摩西遭遇了什么事情“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "These documents represent a mountain of raw data and individual impressions, most several years old, devoid of context or analysis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

There was the wonder I felt when I saw a brace of mountain like, spotted, black-and-white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay.

我觉到很美妙,当我望见一大群如山般高大的，黑白斑点马压过土路,我觉到很快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Leone was hit hard by the tsunami. Last Tuesday, the usually peaceful ocean surged into a mountain of water that swept through the scenic seaside village, on the southwest side of the main island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Typically, a mountain range will be the boundary between the area of two poleis or a stretch of water, because Greece has the sea winding through it everywhere.

比如,一座山脉,就能成为一种典型的城邦之间边界,由于希腊四处邻海,一段水域也可以成为边界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Here they can see Waimoku Falls where water drops one hundred twenty meters down the face of a mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At the time, scientists believed that a person at the top of the mountain would only have enough oxygen to sleep.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Is it to be melted away by secession, as the snows of a mountain are melted away under the sun?

VOA: special.2009.04.02

She read a book about the wild mountain gorillas of central Africa written by American zoologist George Schaller.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

Today,scientists say a person dropped on the top of the mountain would live no more than ten minutes.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The team was to create the first map of the area and find a possible path to the top of the great mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

As he walked out, he told a friend, "I think I can already smell the fresh mountain air of my home in Tennessee."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Dangerous mountain paths. And they all risk developing a serious health disorder caused by lack of oxygen.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The British schoolteacher was a member of the first three trips by foreigners to the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

A great number of their machines have come over the far mountain.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Then,out of the fog he saw a mountain.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

They had minutes to scramble up the mountain. Vivi,his brother and cousin carried their elderly father on a section of metal fencing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Helen White, a former school counselor, founded the after-school program "I know a lot of very sad stories of many mountain children."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

You could say Cypress Mountain has been a thorn in the side of Olympic organizers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Campbell's belief in the program seemed justified Tuesday afternoon when Ashleigh McIvor won a gold medal in front of home fans in ski cross in Cypress Mountain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Carolyn Maloney's own tragedy struck last September, when she learned that her husband of 31 years had died on a mountain trail, during an expedition to the Himalayas.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07