- [countable] (abbreviation m)(in Britain and North America)
a unit for measuring distance equal to 1 609 metres or 1 760 yards 英裏（= 1 609 米或 1 760 碼） a 20-mile drive to work 開車 20 英裏去上班 an area of four square miles 四平方英裏的面積 a mile-long procession 一英裏長的遊行隊伍 The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road. 最近的銀行沿着這條路要走半英裏。 The boys were left stranded two miles from home. 男孩們被困在離家兩英裏的地方。 He runs 10 miles every morning. 他每天早上跑10英裏。 We did about 30 miles a day on our cycling trip. 我們騎車旅行，每天約騎 30 英裏。 The car must have been doing at least 100 miles an hour. 這車速肯定每小時至少 100 英裏。 - (British English)
My car does 35 miles to the gallon. 我的車一加侖油能跑 35 英裏。 - (North American English)
My car gets 35 miles to the gallon. 我的車一加侖油能跑 35 英裏。 - (figurative)
His thoughts were racing a mile a minute (= very fast). 他的思維正在高速運轉。
Extra ExamplesTopics Maths and measurementa1She drives about 50 miles a day. 她每天開車大約50英裏。 Most parents travel miles across London to reach the club. 大多數父母穿越倫敦數英裏到達俱樂部。 They live 40 miles from the nearest supermarket. 他們住在離最近的超市40英裏的地方。 She crossed hundreds of miles of frozen tundra on a dog sled. 她乘坐狗拉的雪橇穿越了數百英裏的冰凍苔原。 Fell-runners who are out to win can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes. 一心想赢得荒野賽跑的選手可以在15 分鐘多的時間内跑完3 英裏的路程。 Good runners can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes. 能跑的人 15 分鐘多一點就能跑完這 3 英裏。 She was talking a mile a minute. 她說得特别快。 The country's Red Sea coast stretches some 500 miles. 該國紅海海岸線綿延約 500 英裏。 The police stopped them doing 100 miles per hour on the motorway. 他們因爲在高速公路上以每小時100 英裏的速度行駛而被警察攔住。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- nautical
- square
- cover
- cycle
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- miles an hour
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a large area or a long distance 大面積；長距離 miles and miles of desert 廣闊無垠的沙漠 There isn't a house for miles around here. 附近數英裏以内沒有一座房子。 I'm not walking—it's miles away. 我不會走路去的，太遠了。 It was a wonderful journey through miles and miles of lush green jungle. 這是一次穿越一英裏又一英裏鬱鬱蔥蔥的綠色叢林的美妙旅程。 - (informal)
She's taller than you by a mile. 她比你高多了。
- the mile[singular]
a race over one mile 一英裏賽跑
Word OriginOld English mīl, based on Latin mil(l)ia, plural of mille ‘thousand’ (the original Roman unit of distance was mille passus ‘a thousand paces’).
Idioms
be miles away
- (informal)
to be thinking deeply about something and not aware of what is happening around you 想出了神
give somebody an inch (and they’ll take a mile/yard)
- (saying)
used to say that if you allow some people a small amount of freedom or power they will see you as weak and try to take a lot more 得寸進尺
go the extra mile (for somebody/something)
to make a special effort to achieve something, help somebody, etc. 孜孜以求；加倍努力；加把勁 a willingness to go the extra mile to make a project work 願意付出額外的努力使項目運行
miles from anywhere
a miss is as good as a mile
- (saying)
there is no real difference between only just failing in something and failing in it badly because the result is still the same 錯誤再小也是錯；功敗垂成仍爲敗
run a mile (from somebody/something)
- (informal)
to show that you are very frightened of doing something 盡量避開
see, spot, tell, smell, etc. something a mile off
stand/stick out a mile
to be very obvious or easy to notice 顯而易見 It stood out a mile that she was lying. 很明顯她在撒謊。