This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Governor Winthrop when he gave his speech to the puritans on the ship, on the Mayflower, he said : "We shall be a city upon a hill."

温斯洛普总督,当他站在船上，面对着清教徒发表演讲时，在五月花上，他说,我们应该建造山上的城“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

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

Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.

赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"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

I used to... you know, I lived and worked out of Sloane Lab up on the hill and it was easy to have office hours before or after class but now you have to make a special trip.

我以前...,我以前的工作和住的地方都是斯隆实验室外的,小山上,那时的开放时间设在课前或课后对我来说都很方便,但是现在你们就得费点儿周折了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Further on, they saw how the moose had struggled to escape up a hill.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

if you've got a hill or valley and there's a cart on wheels it's going to go down to the bottom.

如果我们有一座山或者山谷，并且,有一个有轮子的车，这辆车会自动滑到底部。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Remember there is that citadel standing on a high hill; the acropolis as it is called, the polis up high.

要记得在高地上会有一个据点,叫做卫城,城邦的位置更高一些

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The inn is built on a low hill.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

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 is helping coordinate the government's response to the spill and spoke at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

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

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

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

Just before the president spoke, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared before reporters on Capitol Hill to voice confidence, saying Congress was a day closer to making history for the American people.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

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

But there's a lot left to discuss on Capitol Hill, with Senate Democrats trying to combine an energy bill with a climate bill and Republicans opposing the idea and calling it an energy tax.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

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