mile
/maɪ̯l/ 名词 B1中文： 节、英里
- The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. · Turn left in 1.2 miles.· You need to go about three mile down the road.
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
- An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- Any similarly large distance. · The shot missed by a mile.· My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.
- A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters) · The runners competed in the mile.
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A thousand miles we galloped fast,
“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud.
Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—” (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a _very_ good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)
_All persons more than a mile high to leave the court_.”
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