Mile

(noun.) a footrace extending one mile; 'he holds the record in the mile'.

(noun.) a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.

(noun.) a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km.

(noun.) an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards.

(noun.) a large distance; 'he missed by a mile'.

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• About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the twelve-mile drive? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The moor is before us now, and there is no life for many a mile round. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Before he had gone half a mile he had forgotten all about her, except that she was a woman who had sat down to rest. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The latter was then about a mile long. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Xerxes passed into Europe, not as Darius did at the half-mile crossing of the Bosphorus, but at the Hellespont (the Dardanelles). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The latter place was a large, comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated among woods about a mile to the northeast of Chesterfield. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The day was fine and clear; and the persons not being more than half a mile off she could see their every detail with the telescope. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Mind--the seven-mile stage in less than half an hour! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• From Raymond there is a direct road to Edward's station, some three miles west of Champion's Hill. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This stand by the enemy was made more than two miles outside of his main fortifications. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Searchlights have recently been made capable of being seen nearly a hundred miles away. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At Stickleford--about two miles to the right of Alderworth, ma'am, where the meads begin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Fred Bentinck rode by the side of my carriage for the first ten miles. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I have never yet been ten miles from my native place, and I want to see the world. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• All Athens accompanied us for several miles. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Although we live only two miles apart I have never been inside her aunt's house in my life. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The enemy fell back to Sutherland Station on the South Side Road and were followed by Miles. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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