miles

英 [maɪlz]

美 [maɪlz]

n.  英里(= 1 609米或1 760码); 大面积; 长距离; 很多; 远远地
mile的复数

IELTS

BNC.6229

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 英里(等于1,760 码或约等于1.6公里)
  Amileis a unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards or approximately 1.6 kilometres.
  1. They drove 600 miles across the desert...
     他们驱车600英里穿越沙漠。
  2. 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。
  3. She lives just half a mile away...
     她就住在半英里以外的地方。
  4. There's a lake up there, about ten miles long.
     那里有一个湖泊，长约10英里。
  5. ...a 50-mile bike ride.
     骑自行车50英里的路程
• N-PLURAL 很长的路程；长距离
  Milesis used, especially in the expressionmiles away, to refer to a long distance.
  1. 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。
  2. I was miles and miles from anywhere...
     我离任何地方都非常远。
  3. 'Shall I come to see you?' — 'Are you kidding? It's miles.'
     “我去看望你好吗？”——“你在开玩笑吗？路很远的。”
• N-COUNT 很大的程度（强调区别或目标与现实的差距）
  Milesora mileis used with the meaning 'very much' in order to emphasize the difference between two things or qualities, or the difference between what you aimed to do and what you actually achieved.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. The rehearsals were miles too slow and no work was getting done.
     排练的进度实在太慢，什么工作都没有完成。
• PHRASE 思想不集中;开小差；走神
  If you say that someone ismiles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
  1. What were you thinking about? You were miles away.
     你刚才在想什么呢？你开小差了。
• PHRASE 加倍努力；加把劲
  If you say that someone is willing togo the extra mile, you mean that they are willing to make a special effort to do or achieve something.
  1. 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”。
• PHRASE 打老远，一眼（认出）
  If you say that you can see or recognize somethinga mile off, you are emphasizing that it is very obvious and easy to recognize.
  1. You can spot undercover cops a mile off.
     你一眼就可以认出便衣警察。
• PHRASE (因极度害怕或不愿面对)避而远之，跑得远远的
  If you say that someone wouldrun a milewhen faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 显而易见;很明显
  If you say that something or someonesticks out a mileorstands out a mile, you are emphasizing that they are very obvious and easy to recognize.
  1. '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。”
  2. 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。

双语例句

• It took us an hour to go three miles.
  我们走3英里路花了1个小时。
• For nearly two hundred miles she sailed on, her sails hard with ice
  它在船帆硬邦邦地结满了冰的情况下连续航行了将近200英里。
• Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up
  好几十英里的铁轨被毁坏了。
• I had two miles to go and it was just coming on to rain.
  我还要走两英里，这时候却下起了雨。
• After a few miles, a small road branched off to the right
  过了几英里，右侧出现一条小岔路。
• The oil washed ashore on roughly 1,000 miles of coastline
  石油沿着海岸线扩散到了大约1,000英里范围的沿岸海域。
• The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus
  公路蜿蜒数英里，穿过炙烤的大地、灌木丛和仙人掌。
• We averaged 42 miles per hour.
  我们的平均时速是每小时42英里。
• In Northern California, a wildfire has spread a haze of smoke over 200 miles.
  在加利福尼亚州北部，一场野火产生的烟雾已扩散了200多英里。
• We drove on for a few miles
  我们继续往前开了几公里。