1
- a naturally raised area of land, not as high or craggy as a mountain小山, 丘陵。
1.1
- a sloping piece of road斜坡：
they were climbing a steep hill in low gear.
他们正以低速挡爬一个陡峭的山坡。
1.2
- a heap or mound of something一堆：
a hill of sliding shingle.
一堆滑动的卵石。
with obj.
1- form (something) into a heap使成堆。
1.1
- bank up (a plant) with soil给（植物）培土：
if frost threatens our new plants, we hill them up.
如果霜冻威胁到我们新长的植物, 我们就给它们培土。
短语
a hill of beans
- with negative N. Amer. informal a thing of little value〈北美, 非正式〉一文不值; 毫无价值之物：
the problems of one old actor don't amount to a hill of beans.
一个老演员的问题根本不足挂齿。
over the hill
- informal old and past one's best〈非正式〉上了年纪的, 走下坡的, 过了巅峰时期的。
词源
Old English hyll, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin collis and Greek kolōnos 'hill'.