mile

英 [maɪl] 美 [maɪl]

• n. 英里；海里；一英里赛跑

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]英里

   a unit for measuring length

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 英里，哩（=1609米）
2. 一英里赛跑
3. <口>相当大的距离

adv. 副词

1. [复数]<口>以很大距离，在很大程度上

英英释义

Noun:

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

2. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

3. a large distance;

   "he missed by a mile"
   

4. a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

5. a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

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"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. My son hoofs a mile to school each day.
   我的儿子每天步行一英里去上学。
2. It's not less than a mile to the station.
   到火车站至少有一英里路。
3. He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea.
   鱼深暗色的血在一哩深的海里，像云朵般地扩散开来，鲨鱼闻到血腥味便由深水中游过来。
4. He wants to better his record for running the mile.
   他要提高一英里赛跑的纪录。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. I dismissed the carriage and walked the last mile.
   我把马车打发走了,徒步走完最后一英里路。
2. He swam a mile yesterday.
   昨天他游了一英里。
3. If we go by this road, we can save half a mile.
   如果我们走这条路,可以少走半英里地。
4. The city covered ten square miles.
   这个城市面积有10平方英里。
5. Twenty miles is a long distance.
   二十英里很远。1500 square miles of area has/have been flooded.1500多平方公里的土地被洪水淹没。
6. Many square miles of land in this low-lying country have been reclaimed from the sea.
   这个低地国家已经填海开拓出许多平方英里的土地。
7. You were driving at ninety miles an hour. Have anything to say for yourself?
   你当时的驾驶时速已达每小时九十英里,你有什么要辩解的吗?
8. I run five miles every day.
   我每天跑五英里。
9. We had to walk three miles to the church, where he preached.
   我们不得不步行3英里去他传教的教堂。
10. The soldiers plunged into action although they had just marched 20 miles.
    士兵们刚跑完二十英里的路程,便立刻投入了战斗。
11. They marched ten miles with nothing to eat.
    他们空着肚子走了10英里。
12. She makes nothing of walking five or ten miles a day.
    她一天走上个五英里或者十英里的路,根本不在话下。
13. He logged 800 miles in the first ten days at sea.
    在海上的头10天里他航行了800海里。
14. She lives about ten miles from my house.
    她的住处离我家约10英里远。
15. They extended the road for three more miles.
    他们把那条路又延长了三英里多。
16. The waterfall may be heard at a distance of two miles.
    瀑布的响声在两英里之外就能听到。
17. How far is it from here to Nottinggham?—Twenty miles as the crow flies.
    从这里到诺丁汉有多远?——直线距离20英里。
18. We judged the distance to be about 4 miles.
    我们估计距离在4英里左右。
19. The driver was told to ease the car down to 20 miles an hour on that curve.
    他们告诉司机在那个急转弯的地方把车速降至每小时20英里。
20. We had less than three miles to go.
    我们还有三英里不到的路程要走。
21. My bike has carried me 300 miles.
    我的自行车已载我行驶了300英里路。
22. You may call it ten miles from here to the seaside.
    从这里到海边的路程你不妨算作10英里。
23. I want to cover 100 miles before it gets dark.
    在天黑之前我想行程100英里。
24. They covered 120 miles in a single night.
    他们仅一夜就走了120英里路。
25. He was cornering at 60 miles an hour.
    他以每小时60英里的速度把车子拐弯。
26. The road continues in a straight line for five miles.
    这条道路笔直延伸五英里。
27. We approximated the distance at three miles.
    我们粗略估计距离为3英里。
28. Believe it or not, he walked 12 miles to get help for you.
    你们相信不相信,他为你们求援竟走了12英里!
29. After we had gone a few miles one of us had to fall out as a result of a sprained ankle.
    我们走了几英里以后,有人因扭伤了脚踝而只好掉队了。
30. When we were only a few miles from our destination the petrol gave out.
    当我们离目的地只有几英里的路程时,汽油用完了。
31. The waste is carried hundreds of miles by the wind.
    这废物被风刮到几百英里之外。
32. First,I am training hard now swimming seven and a half miles a day. Prior to that time I also kept physically fit by training moderately hard.
    首先,我训 练刻苦——现在每天游泳七英里半,在那以前我也通过适度刻苦训练保持身体健康。
33. The railway line follows the river for several miles.
    铁路线沿着河流延伸几英里。
34. The river Thames discharges itself into the sea some miles east of London.
    泰晤士河在伦敦东面数英里处流入大海。
35. We drove some miles out into the country.
    我们开车数英里到农村去。
36. He ran himself out in the first mile.
    在跑第一英里时,他就累得精疲力竭了。
37. The champion lapped him at the mile.
    在一英里赛跑中,冠军超过他整整一圈。
38. The little red car ate up the soggy miles.
    那辆红色小汽车一会儿就驶完了那段数英里长的湿漉漉的路。
39. They walked for miles without seeing a house.
    他们走了好几英里路都见不到一所房子。
40. After tramping for miles through the forest, we finally struck the road.
    在森林里拖着沉重的脚步行走了数英里之后,我们终于找到了那条大路。
41. The earthquake jarred the city and the surrounding countryside for miles.
    地震动摇了那座城市及其周围很远的乡村。
42. The countryside opens out beyond those trees, and you can see for miles.
    过那片树林,便豁然开朗,村野风光数里之外一览无遗。
43. The river broke through its banks, and flooded the country for many miles around .
    河水决堤,淹没了方圆许多英里的乡村。
44. I asked him why he had come all the miles from wherever he had come.
    我问他为什么不远千里从家里赶来。
45. This river empties itself into the ocean many miles away.
    这条河流入数英里外的海洋里。
46. The husband is miles away from the wife.
    夫妻二人天涯海角各在一方。
47. She's feeling miles better today.
    她今天觉得好多了。
48. A stone guidepost advised him that Gaza was still eight miles distant.
    一块指路碑告诉他离加沙还有8英里。

经典引文

• I should have thought he'd be miles better than no one.

  出自： E. M. Delafield

• She was on the scrounge...You could spot it a mile off.

  出自： J. Porter

• People will run a mile when faced with an..American wanting to talk.

  出自：Independent

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

miss by a mile

失误极大 have a lots of mistakes

not a hundred〔million〕 miles from

离…不远 not a long distance

talk a mile a minute

滔滔不绝地说 talk with excessive enthusiasm; express unpleasantly foolish and insincere admiration for sb/sth

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• cover miles in one hour 一小时走完…英里
• do miles in one hour 一小时走完…英里
• make about four miles an hour 一小时能走四英里
• travel... miles a day 日行…英里

形容词+～

• geographical mile 海里
• marine mile 海里
• nautical mile 海里

名词+～

• sea mile 海里
• square mile 平方英里
• statute mile 法定英里
• three and a half miles 三英里半

～+名词

• mile stone 里程碑

介词+～

• a little beyond a mile 一英里稍多一点
• miss by a mile 失误极大
• miss the target by a mile 远远没有击中目标
• for miles around 周围几英里之内
• within three miles of 在…的三英里范围内

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. mile的意思是“英里”,缩写式为mi,M.或m.,是可数名词。
2. mile用作主语时,常被视为一个整体,谓语动词常用单数形式。
3. miles用作复数时,意思是“相当长的一段距离”,常与for连用。
4. mile引申可表示“很大的距离,在很大程度上”。
5. run a mile意思是“赶快避开,飞快地跑掉”。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 五英里(的路程)是我走得了的最大距离。

   误 Five miles are the greatest distance I can walk.

   正 Five miles is the greatest distance I can walk.

   析 miles用作主语时,常被视为一个整体,谓语动词常用单数形式。

2. 你一眼就可以看出他是个侦探。

   误 You can tell he's a detective a mile away .

   正 You can tell he's a detective a mile off.

3. 听见我的话了吗?——对不起,没有,刚才我走神了。

   误 Did you hear me?—No, sorry,I was miles off.

   正 Did you hear me?—No, sorry,I was miles away.

   析 a mile off的意思是“在一英里以外,远距离之外一目了然地; 打老远就很容易…地”; miles away的意思是“在远的地方,心不在焉”。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自拉丁语的milia，意为一千。

近反义词

【近义词】

• mi 大音阶的第三音...
• nautical mile 海里(合1
• sea mile 海里
• international nautical mile 国际海里
• geographical mile 地理英里(赤道1分的弧长...
• land mile 英里
• air mile 空哩(约相当于6076尺...
• Swedish mile 瑞典里
• statute mile 法定英里(=5280英尺...
• knot 结
• international mile internationa...
• mil 千分之一英寸...