The desert of southeastern Utah is a wilderness of flat-topped mesas, jutting buttes and plunging canyons.

犹他州东南部的沙漠是一片由平顶的台地、突出的孤峰低洼的峡谷组成的荒野。

It`s less of a butte and more of a brute.

与其说是小山丘，不如说是蛮荒之地。

It's full of what we call " buttes" (buttes).

它充满了我们所说的“孤峰”(孤峰)。

On either side of the footpath, wind-gnarled cottonwoods and stunted pines fall away to reveal a sprawling expanse of mountains, deep river canyons and squat sandstone buttes with their distinctive wide, flat summits.

在步道两侧， 风化扭曲的三角叶杨矮小的松树逐渐隐退，展现出一片连绵起伏的山脉、深邃的河谷以及低矮的砂岩孤丘，这些孤丘顶部宽阔平坦， 特征鲜明。

That's true. And, Jeff, frankly, I have stopped calling it the fiscal cliff. It got so tired. I'm calling it the budgetary butte, with your permission.OK.

这是真的。而且，杰夫，坦率地说，我已经不再称其为财政悬崖。它太累了。在您允许的情况下，我将其称为预算小山。好的。

The sunrise illuminates the bottom of the arch orange, and then behind it you see the buttes and clouds and cliffs.

日出将拱门底部照成了橙色，然后在其后你可以看到土丘、云朵悬崖。

The buttes that are inside Badlands National Park are quite beautiful.

恶地国家公园内的孤峰非常美丽。

It's more picturesque. A butte is more picturesque, I think, than a cliff, but go ahead, yes.

更美如画。我认为小山比悬崖更风景如画，但是继续吧，是的。

A " butte" is basically a tall hill that is flat on top.

孤峰基本上就是一个顶部平坦的高山。