koppie

1 What is that yonder, moving above the tops of the mimosa, in the little dell at the foot of the koppie?

2 By the following afternoon they came to the koppies through which the river ran, and asked its name.

3 But we, on the other hand, had excellent reasons for not arriving till night was closing in, since we relied upon the gloom to cover our advance upon the koppie which commanded the town.

4 Now from the koppie I saw a little kraal far away to the right, and to this kraal I came that same afternoon with my last strength.

5 The following day, Sunday 12 August, a group of about 150 strikers marched from their new base on the koppie to the Lonmin office.

6 Sein koppies," and now we close the chapter with the following words, which I have translated from his diary: "The crown has been set on my undertaking.

7 We rushed up to him, and there, sure enough, in a deep cut or indentation on the very top of the sand koppie, was an undoubted pool of water.

8 Near to our camp was a stone-covered koppie, where, on the morning after our arrival, I saw six or eight men executed in a way that I will not describe.

9 From the top of the koppie, Xolani had watched the attack begin.

10 Meanwhile the Christian nurse had rushed off over the crest of the koppie to fetch Thomas and Dorcas, or either of them.

11 Midway between the koppie and the wall behind which lie the men of the king stands a flat rock, and all about that rock are stretched the bodies of dead soldiers.

12 Now Nodwengo and his soldiers saw what had happened, and with a shout of "Treachery!" some hundreds of them leapt into the plain and began to run towards the koppie to rescue their envoy.

13 On the morning of the fifth day I could go no farther, so I crept to the top of a koppie and watched their long line winding across the plain.

14 They are in full cry; the giraffes hear them and are away, rolling round the koppie like a ship in a heavy sea.

15 They went for a walk up the koppie.

他们去小山上散步了。

16 It shows police officers walking and shooting far from the initial clash, and the television cameras there, near the rocks of the koppie.

17 These koppies, the guides told them, were the gates of Sisa Town.

18 The hills stood out dark against the illimitable splendour, and on every koppie you saw the huge lions, like kittens at play, roaring till you could scarcely hear the thunder.

19 It is 16:13, and he might have been escaping from the cauldron of death that was the innermost circle of the weathered jumble of granite that was the remains of the koppie.

20 They went for a walk up the koppie.

他们去小山上散步了。

1 小丘

rise mound hillock hummock

2 小山

rise hill elevation tor hummock knoll hillock fell kop knap