mile

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n. 英里, 很大距离 [机] 英里, 哩

发音

UK /maɪ̯l/
US /maɪ̯l/
其它
UK /maɪ̯ɫ/
US /maɪ̯ɫ/

词形变化

miles 复数 miles

别名

m

教材释义与例句

名词

英里；一英里赛跑；较大的距离

a unit for measuring distance, equal to 1,760 yard s or about 1,609 metres

It's 40 miles from here to the Polish border.

从这里到波兰边界有40英里。

an area 50 miles wide and 150 miles long

一片50英里宽、150英里长的地区

We walked about half a mile .

我们大约走了半英里。

He was driving at 70 miles per hour .

他正以每小时70英里的速度驾车行驶。

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    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.

    3.6 km is about 2 miles.

  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

  4. 4.

    The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

  5. 5.

    Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.

  6. 6.

    An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.

    交通
  7. 7.

    Any similarly large distance.

    非正式

    The shot missed by a mile.

    My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.

  8. 8.

    A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

    体育

    The runners competed in the mile.

  9. 9.

    One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

    节

    非正式

    five miles over the speed limit

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

mi mil air mile nautical mile geographical mile international mile land mile Roman mile sea mile statute mile

上位词 1

track event

部分词 3

furlong half-mile quarter-mile

整体词 1

league

相关短语

air mile 空英里 Mile High Club Mile High City [网络] 哩高城；一英里高的城市；英里高城 Mile Long Club Mile End mile marker mile a minute mile markers mile-a-minute talk a mile a minute 滔滔不绝,语如连珠 walk a mile in someone's shoes from a mile away a mile wide and an inch deep Five Mile High Club Six Mile Bottom

词源

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

来源：wiktionary