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He performed the fastest sail circumnavigation, the fastest sail transatlantic crossing and the highest flight in a glider, nine miles (15.5km) above the Andes.

并且他还进行了最快的环球帆船航行，最快的的跨大西洋的帆船穿越和在安第斯山脉9英里（15.5公里）上空进行最高的滑翔机飞行。

By contrast, the common high-altitude cirrus clouds only reach heights of 11 miles (18 km) up.

另外，地球高空的卷云最多可以飘到11英里（18公里）的高度。

Neither of them are big rivers,but very large when joined together ,and yet larger when they are joined by a third river,which joins them near Clarendon Park ,about three miles below the city.

两条河都不大但是当它们会合后就很大了。当第三条河在离这座城约三英里的克拉伦登公园附近汇合后就更大了。

Neither of them are big rivers, but very large when joined together, and yet larger when they are joined by a third river, which joins them near Clarendon Park, about three miles below the city.

这两条河都不大，但这两条河汇合以后则是一条很大的河，而且当它与在该市以下3英里克拉伦登公园处的第三条河汇合后则成了一条更大的河流。

Armstrong was the leader of a gang of rough men from clary's grove, a strip of land three miles from the village.

阿姆斯特朗是一伙粗人的头目，来自克莱尔小树林，那是距离本村子三英里外的一长条土地。

Armstron was the leader of a gang of rough men from Clary's Grove, a strip of land three miles from the village.

阿姆斯特朗是是一伙粗人的头目，来自克莱尔小树林，那是距离本村子三英里外的一长条土地。

The men had just marched fifteen miles in the previous twenty hours. Maj. Maurice Clift, the executive officer, picked out a bivouac area, two enclosed pastures. The men moved into them and slumped against the hedgerow embankments, so exhausted they didn't bother to remove their haversacks.

全营官兵刚在20个小时里行军15英里，副营长默瑞斯·克里夫少校在两个相邻的牧场上划出露营地，官兵们进入其中，连滚带爬地来到树篱堤坝下，他们如此疲劳，甚至都懒得卸掉背包。

People who are sick with the flu aren't likely to be clocking many miles on the treadmill anyway.

得流感病人是不太可能在跑步机跑许多英里的。

To make such swift progress, the planet circles extremely close-in to its star — about 2 percent of the distance from the Earth to the sun, in fact, or 2 million miles (3.4 million kilometers).

该行星必须在特别近的距离上环绕其恒星，才能运行得如此之快。事实上，这颗行星跟其恒星的距离只有地球到太阳距离的百分之二，换句话说，只有两百万英里（340万公里）。

The wind rose, and from a fresh breeze it soon increasedto a regular gale; that is to say, it acquired a speed of from forty toforty-five miles an hour, before which a ship in the open sea would haverun under close-reefed topsails.

风愈刮愈大，很快就由微风一变而为正式的暴风了；它的速度达到每小时四十到四十五英里，船如在海里遇到这种风，即使紧收着中桅的帆，也会象飞似的前进的，乘风破浪号在将近六点钟的时候到了港湾口，可是这时候潮势变了，因此它不能入港。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷