首页英语词典milemile的意思

mile

英 [maɪl] 美[maɪl]

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n. 英里；一英里赛跑；较大的距离
n. (Mile)人名；(塞、匈、法)米莱

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复数: miles;

中文词源

mile 英里

来自拉丁语milia,一千，词源同million,millimeter.后引申词义英里，即一千整步，两千小步。

英英释意

1. a unit of length equal to 1760 yards

2. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

3. a large distance;: "he missed by a mile"

4. a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

5. a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)

6. an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

7. a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

8. a footrace extending one mile;: "he holds the record in the mile"

英文词源

mile: mile: [OE] Latin mille denoted ‘thousand’ (it is the source of English millennium [17], etymologically a ‘thousand years’, and, via Italian and French, of million [14]). Its plural mīllia was used in ancient Rome for a measure of length equal to a thousand paces. This was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *mīlja, which has subsequently differentiated into German meile, Dutch mijl, and English mile. (The English mile is over 100 yards longer than the Roman one was.)
=> millennium, million
mile (n.): Old English mil, from West Germanic *milja (cognates: Middle Dutch mile, Dutch mijl, Old High German mila, German meile), from Latin milia "thousands," plural of mille "a thousand" (neuter plural was mistaken in Germanic as a fem. singular), of unknown origin.

The Latin word also is the source of French mille, Italian miglio, Spanish milla. The Scandinavian words (Old Norse mila, etc.) are from English. An ancient Roman mile was 1,000 double paces (one step with each foot), for about 4,860 feet, but there were many local variants and a modern statute mile is about 400 feet longer. In Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, the Latin word was applied arbitrarily to the ancient Germanic rasta, a measure of from 3.25 to 6 English miles. Mile-a-minute (adj.) "very fast" is attested from 1957.

考试真题

On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

Norwalk is about eighteen miles east of here on Route 7.

It's about thirty-five miles northeast of here

Huh-uh, thirty-five miles northeast.

It's about fifty-five miles southwest from here and the road is not at all straight

Fifty-five miles southwest Well, maybe I won't go there this time.

Westfield is just seven miles west ofhere and Great Town is about five miles south.

Seven miles west to Westfield and five relies south to Great Town

It lies seven miles east of Newton.

They are fifty-five miles apart

Alcatraz is over a mile from the mainland.

When he was about half a mile out from the dark, he felt a bit tired.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

the man whose horse trots（奔跑）a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

It then ships the gas 200 miles by pipeline to Canada, where it is pumped underground in oil recovery operations.

Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.

As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.

At mile 3, I passed a sign:" go for it, runners!".

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

Ehlers returned to minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to minneapolis to put rosie on a flight to Michigan.

Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

Everything they know about you came through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away.

He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him.

However, the closest supply was over 1, 000 miles away, in anchorage.

It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Lowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota.

On the ground, it gets 35 miles per gallon.

Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.

The three-month, 1, 900-mile journey from Paris to warsaw is dubanchet's way of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

The transition, which flew at 1, 400 feet for eight minutes last month, can reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115 in the air.

They travelled over snow-covered mountains and sailed hundreds of miles up icy rivers.

Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

Wilson has covered am astonishing 64, 000 miles, and has had countless pleasant and often humorous conversations with the students he transports to and from school.

With each day, increase the distance by a half mile.

Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

When the EEOB was finished, it was the largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black and white tiled corridors.

词组搭配

be miles away

(informal)be lost in thought and so unaware of what is happening around one

(非正式)心不在焉；走神

go the extra mile

be especially assiduous in one's attempt to achieve something

特别勤奋

a mile a minute

(informal)very quickly

(非正式)很快，飞快

he talks a mile a minute.
他说话像连珠炮。

the mile-high club

(humorous)used in reference to having sex on an aircraft

(幽默)高空俱乐部（指在飞机上做爱）

she &B{joined the mile-high club} by making love on a flight between New York and LA.
她在纽约飞往洛杉矶的航班上做爱，加入了高空俱乐部。

miles from anywhere

(informal)in a very isolated place

(非正式)与世隔绝

run a mile

(informal)used to show that one is frightened by or very unwilling to do something

(非正式)（表示害怕或不愿做某事）赶快避开，飞快跑掉

if someone proposed to me I'd probably run a mile.
假如有人向我求婚，我可能会逃之夭夭的。

see (或 tell, spot) something a mile off

(informal)recognize something very easily

(非正式)很容易辨认

the baddies can be spotted a mile off.
坏蛋很容易辨认。

stand (或 stick) out a mile

(informal)be very obvious or incongruous

(非正式)显而易见，一目了然；格格不入

实用场景例句

(British English)My car does 35 miles to the gallon.: 我的车一加仑油能跑35英里。

(North Amercian English)My car gets 35 miles to the gallon.: 我的车一加仑油能跑35英里。

a 20-mile drive to work: 开车20英里去上班

an area of four square miles: 四平方英里的面积

a mile-long procession: 一英里长的游行队伍

The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road.: 最近的银行沿着这条路要走半英里。

We did about 30 miles a day on our cycling trip.: 我们骑车旅行，每天约骑30英里。

The car must have been doing at least 100 miles an hour.: 这车速肯定每小时至少100英里。

miles and miles of desert: 广阔无垠的沙漠

There isn't a house for miles around here.: 附近数英里以内没有一座房子。

I'm not walking─it's miles away .: 我不会走着去的——太远了。

I'm feeling miles better today, thanks.: 多谢，我今天感觉好多了。

I'm miles behind with my work.: 我的工作远远地落在了后面。

She's taller than you by a mile.: 她比你高多了。

He ran the mile in less than four minutes.: 他用了不到四分钟就跑完一英里。

a four-minute mile: 四分钟一英里赛跑

We broke down miles from anywhere.: 在一个偏远的地方，我们的车坏了。

They drove 600 miles across the desert...: 他们驱车600英里穿越沙漠。

The hurricane is moving to the west at about 18 miles per hour...: 飓风正以每小时18英里的速度向西推进。

If you enrol at a gym that's miles away, you won't be visiting it as often as you should...: 如果你加入的健身馆非常远，就不会去得那么经常了。

I was miles and miles from anywhere...: 我离任何地方都非常远。

You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays...: 你比当下我们见到的大多数表演者都强多了。

With a Labour candidate in place they won by a mile...: 有一个工党的候选人坐镇，他们大获全胜。

What were you thinking about? You were miles away.: 你刚才在想什么呢？你开小差了。

The President is determined 'to go the extra mile for peace'.: 总统决心“为实现和平而加倍努力”。

You can spot undercover cops a mile off.: 你一眼就可以认出便衣警察。

If anybody had told me when I first got married that I was going to have seven children, I would have run a mile...: 若是有人在我刚结婚时跟我说我会生7个孩子，我一定会躲得远远的。

I'm very squeamish and when I see needles I run a mile.: 我神经非常脆弱，见到针头就会逃之夭夭。

'How do you know he's Irish?' —'Sticks out a mile.'...: “你是怎么知道他是爱尔兰人的呢？”——“明摆的事嘛。”

We stood out a mile on that first day at school.: 上学第一天，我们就非常惹人注意。