| 单词 | hilly |
| 释义 | hilly (once / 2257 pages) adj Land that's hilly rises and falls with many hills. The hilly roads in eastern Kansas might surprise you, if you've always imagined the entire state being completely flat. A hilly neighborhood requires walkers to trudge up steep slopes, and a hilly field is a picturesque backdrop for a farmer's exotic sheep to graze in. Anything that's hilly is marked with hills, or mounds of land that are smaller than mountains. The Old English source of both hilly and hill is hyll, from a Proto-Germanic root. WORD FAMILYhilly: hilliness, hillyer+/hill: hilled, hilling, hills, hilly USAGE EXAMPLESHUDDERSFIELD, England — The factory here, set amid a brick campus in a green and hilly industrial town, recently celebrated its centennial. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) “It’s not an easy course. It’s a little hilly.” Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016) Istanbul is a very hilly city: seven hills, like Rome, they always say. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) adj having hills and crags hilly terrain Syn cragged, craggy, mountainous rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface |
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