mile

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /maɪ̯l/|[maɪ̯ɫ]    美 /maɪ̯l/|[maɪ̯ɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
    — Turn left in 1.2 miles.
  2. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
    — Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
  5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
  6. An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
  7. Any similarly large distance. informal
    — The shot missed by a mile.
  8. A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
    — The runners competed in the mile.
  9. One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. colloquial
    — five miles over the speed limit

词形变化

miles plural mile UK,colloquial,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
mileage milepost miles per gallon milestone mpg

词源

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).
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