Once on a rock-strewn slope of the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, the writer of the present article happened on a stone axe which archaeologists later identified as an artifact of the Neolithic Age

笔者在宁夏贺兰山东麓的乱石坡上，曾拣到一枚石斧，经考古学家鉴定为新石器时期的遗物。

The foothills began as gentle rolls in the plain

大平原上起初地势偶尔有些平缓的起伏。

She jumped behind the wheel of the car and, with the confidence of a newly licensed driver, zoomed off toward the foothills

她跳上车，像一个刚领到驾照的驾驶员，颇有信心，“突-突-突”地向山下开去。

Experiments on Grazing Methods and Intensity on Stipa Bungeana Grassland in Southern Ningxia Foothills

宁夏南部丘陵山地长芒草草原类草场放牧方式与放牧强度试验

The foothills were looming ahead through the haze.

丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。

chaparral:a biome characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters and dominated by a dense growth of mostly small-leaved evergreen shrubs, as that found in the foothills of California.

沙巴拉群落:由主要为小叶常绿密生的灌木组成的生物群落,夏季干旱炎热,冬季凉爽湿润,如存在于加利福尼亚州山麓小丘的一个生物群落。

The foothills are covered with trees.

山麓上长满了树林。

Agro-system Establishment Dominated by Grassland Livestock Industry in Foothills in Shanxi Province

山西省山地丘陵区草地畜牧业主导型农业系统的建立

A Case Study of a Black Storm at the Northern Foothills of Tianshan Mountains

天山北麓一例黑风暴天气的成因

I went up into the foothills , heading for a wellused deer trail I knew

我走进小丘,向一条我知道的鹿常出没的小径走去。

The Possible Causes of the Crustal Low Resistive Zone for the Western Foothills ,Taiwan

西部麓山带地壳内低阻带成因之探讨

Now in the foothills there was his grave, a grave I could not bear to visit

现在山脚下是他的坟墓，我却不忍心去看一看。

Today one can see a group of ancient tombs at the foot of the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain about 25 km west of the City of Yinchuan and they are burial sites of successive generations of Xixia rulers

现在银川市西约25千米处的贺兰山东麓，分布着一片古墓群，依山而葬，便是西夏的历代王陵。

In that advanced season, the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills in the dry, cold bracing air of the Sierras

在那个较晚的季节，这队人不久便走出了山麓小丘的潮湿、温和的地区，而到了内华达山干燥、寒冷、爽朗的空气里。

Interspersed amongst the plains are hills and foothills .

在这些平原的边缘镶嵌着低山和丘陵。

These foothills have been farmed out with tobacco

这些丘陵地由于专种烟草而耗尽了地力。

Forbes magazine named Ivano-Frankivsk the best city for doing business in Ukraine. It placed ahead of the capital of Kyiv and the city of Lviv. Ivano-Frankivsk is in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.

《福布斯》杂志将伊万诺-弗兰科夫斯克市评为乌克兰的最佳商业城市。它的排名领先于首都基辅以及利沃夫市。伊万诺-弗兰科夫斯克市位于喀尔巴阡山脉脚下。

||1: “THEY hang out in pockets,” says Richard Pan, a Sacramento paediatrician and member of California’s legislature. ||2: He is referring to parents who, invoking a “philosophical exemption”, opt not to give their children the state-recommended vaccinations. ||3: In some pockets, such as the rural foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, they may belong to the conservative don’t-tread-on-me crowd that distrusts all government recommendations simply because they come from the government. ||4: In others, such as the liberal organic-food-and-yoga belt along the coast, parents may forswear vaccines because they see the shots as dangerous, and the diseases they protect against as mild.

||1:“他们常出现在一些比较另类的小地方。”说这话的是理查德-潘，他是萨科拉门托的一名儿科医生，也是加州立法机构的成员。||2:他说的“他们”是那些援引“哲学豁免”规定，不给自己孩子注射州推荐疫苗的父母们。||3:有些地方，比如加州内华达山脉丘陵地区的乡村，那里可能有保守的、以“不要踩我”为信条的民众，他们不相信所有政府推荐的东西，仅仅因为那是政府推荐的。||4:在其他地方，比如沿海的“有机食品和瑜加”地带，这里的人们包容开放，但父母可能也会不给孩子接种疫苗。他们认为注射疫苗很危险，只能预防一些头疼脑热的小病。

||1:The third investigation—Operation Minotaur, focused on Piedmont—led to the arrest of 172 people.||2:It was this that prompted the disbanding of the council in Rivarolo Canavese.||3:There, ‘Ndrangheta bosses are said to have worked with a local politician to get him elected to the European Parliament.||4:One was overheard by investigators to boast proudly that he and his men could command 11,000 votes from towns in the Alpine foothills .

||1:第三项调查代号“米诺陶行动”，聚焦于皮德蒙，协助逮捕了172名罪犯。||2:正是由于这项调查，才加快了Rivarolo Canavese委员会的遣散。||3:据说，在Rivarolo Canavese，Ndrangheta 的领导层与当地一名政客狼狈为奸，给政客投票使其进入欧洲议会。||4:还有一件调查者无意中听到的事，一名黑帮高层自豪的吹嘘：在阿尔卑斯山麓区域，只要我一声令下，就有11000人为我投票。

One is the risk of fire in the pine forests cloaking the foothills of the Himalaya.

一个是隐藏在喜马拉雅山山麓的松林火灾风险。

“It’s where foothills are that the worst landslides will occur, ” he said. “That’s also where people tend to build their houses. ”

“山脚是最严重滑坡发生的地点，”他说，“那同样是人们喜欢盖房子的地点。”

The Lali oilfield in the foothills of the Zagros mountains in southwestern Iran, 1949.

1949年，位于伊朗西南部的扎格罗斯山脉山麓丘陵的拉里油田。

A wildfire burns through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on September 8, 2010 near Boulder, Colorado.

2010年9月8号，科罗拉多州博得附近野火烧遍落基山脉的山麓小丘。

Rick Jarrett has lived in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains for all his 59 years, and he knows well their pleasures and perils.

RickJarrett已经在疯狂山脉住了59年，他清楚的知道山上有什么乐趣和危险。

Yet in Trivero, a town in the Alpine foothills , the looms of one mill are still busy.

但是在阿尔卑斯山脚的一个小镇------特里韦罗（Trivero），一家作坊的纺织机还在忙碌地运转。

The foothills in the east and areas surrounding the periphery of the Pannoni low country amount to about 12% of the total landmass.

东面的丘陵地带和Pannoni外围的较低的地带占到总陆地面积的12%。

Officials said air quality in parts of the foothills bordered on hazardous.

官员表示部分山脚下空气质量处在危险边缘。

When, after many years of exploration, pioneers reach the foothills , the ascent looks formidable or impossible.

经过多年的探索，前辈们到达了山麓，而攀登上去被认为是难以实现或不可能的。

Three hours outside Bucharest, Romanian National Road 7 begins a gentle ascent into the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps.

距离布加勒斯特三小时车程的罗马尼亚7号国道起始于一段平缓的上坡路，一直延伸到特兰西瓦尼亚阿尔卑斯山脉（TransylvanianAlps）的山麓丘陵。

Lijiang is home to the Naxi people, an ethnic group related to Tibetans who have lived in the Yunnan foothills for centuries.

丽江是纳西族的家园。纳西族是一个同曾住在云南山麓数世纪的藏人有所亲戚关系的少数民族。