英里

In Oregon, Portland-based recruiters often journey 217 miles southwest to Marshfield High School in Coos Bay to entice students to put off college in favor of a high-tech factory.

在俄勒冈州波特兰总部的招聘人员向西南走出217英里，到库斯湾的马歇菲尔德中学去动员并吸引学生放弃上大学的打算而乐意到高技术工厂去。

We do not know how he would have written if like Corneille he had composed prefaces to his plays.

离码头不远的圣保利区是欧洲颇有名气的"红灯区"，德国人称之为"罪恶的一英里"。

On November 13, 1907, Paul Cornu flew the first helicopter.

法国机械师保罗·科尔尼驾他的直升机飞离地面，但由于技术上的原因只飞行了20秒钟，爬升了五英里。

Kristen lived with her parents, ten miles out in the country, but once she became Strawberry Queen she moved in with cosmetologist Nancy Rupp, who helped her style her hair early each morning. In 2001, a woman named Sandee Sytsma took over co rdination of the Strawberry Queen program.

以前，Kristen和她父母住在10英里之外乡下，但她刚当选为草莓皇后她就搬到镇上和每天一大早帮她打理发型的化妆师Nancy Rupp住在一起了。2001年，一个名叫Sandee Sytsma的女士开始负责草莓皇后选美比赛的协调工作。

Here, the half-mile of rock above their heads is blocking out the cosmic radiation.

在这里 头顶上半英里厚的岩石阻挡了宇宙射线

The young barrister had brought a couple of dogs with him; and the country gentleman who gave fifty pounds for a pointer, and travelled a couple of hundred miles to look at a leash of setters before he struck a bargain, laughed aloud at the two miserable curs; one of which had followed Robert Audley through Chancery Lane and half the length of Holborn; while his companion had been taken by the barrister vi et armis from a costermonger who was ill-using him.

年轻的大律师带来一对小狗；那位曾经花五十英镑买一头短毛大猎犬，而且居然在成交之前长途跋涉二百英里去瞧三头一组的塞特种猎狗的乡绅，如今大声嘲笑那两头可怜巴巴的杂种狗了。一头跟着罗伯特·奥德利穿过大法官法庭巷，走了霍尔邦的一半路程；而它的同伴，乃是大法官从一个虐待它的、叫卖水果的小贩手里vietarmis①夺过来的。

Many of them were country people who had driven more than twenty miles to the county seat to buy their new tags.

他们当中的很多人都是乡下人，驾车20多英里来到县政府所在地，去买他们的新牌照。

The county town is between 5 and 6 miles away.

县城在五、六英里之外。

They cove re d 120 miles in a single night.

他们仅一夜就走了120英里路。

The shortest distance between tube stations is Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line - 0.16 miles.

站间距最小的是皮卡迪利线上的李斯特广场和柯芬园，只有0.16英里(257.50米)。

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