over the hill

基本解释

A galaxy thought to be over the hill is apparently still hard at work creating baby stars, a new study finds.
最近的研究发现有一个曾经被认为是明显不能但事实上却创造出新生行星的星系。
When Olson came out, "I felt over the hill as a gay man, clueless about what gay meant and suddenly alone, " he writes.
当欧森出柜，“作为一名男同志，我像翻过了一座山，面对着‘同志——意味些什么’束手无策，还有，突然间，只剩下了我一个。” 他写道。
The next morning, he was going over the hill again, with five cardboard boxes piled up one above the other in his cart, thinking, Because we acquiesce.
第二天上午，他又经过了那个灯塔山，这次车上装了五个纸板盒子，一个叠着一个堆在车上。

They turned tail, away they went over the hill and down into the field in wild disorder,and we after them.
But it had rows of seats like that, usually made over a hill or dug into the ground in some way.
但是观众席的结构很相似，通常建在山坡上或挖入地下。
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They turned tail. Away they went over the hill and down into the field in wild disorder, and we after them.

Perhaps Forbes had erred in staking a major conference on an aging guru seemingly well over the hill and in parlous health.
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