1. High-rise buildings are marching across the flatlands, and swish malls are springing up, offering global favorites and local ones . 提供全球知名品牌和当地老字号的高楼大厦遍布平地，时髦而昂贵的商场也拔地而起。
2. We have not yet left the Flatlands, my hasty friend. 我们还没有离开平地呢，我急切的朋友。
3. I live on an east-facing hill and often the frost just rolls down to the flatlands. 我的住处东面临山，在那里时常有霜冻刚滚落到平地上。
4. It is said that plains are good places. It may be wrong. Flatlands are so broad, where larks are happy. 人说平原好，平原未必好，平原宽而广，唯有云雀欢。
5. A mile-high mountain in the flatlands of the Netherlands is no longer just a pipe dream, the idea's main supporter, a newspaper columnist, said this weekend. 一个高海拔的山峰将会在荷兰的平原上出现，这不是白日梦。这个想法的支持者，新闻报的专栏作家周末表示。
