As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
It then ships the gas 200 miles by pipeline to Canada, where it is pumped underground in oil recovery operations.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
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英里(等于1,760 碼或約等于1.6公里)
A mile is a unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards or approximately 1.6 kilometres.
例句
They drove 600 miles across the desert...
他們驅車600英里穿越沙漠。
The hurricane is moving to the west at about 18 miles per hour...
颶風正以每小時18英里的速度向西推進。
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很長的路程；長距離
Miles is used, especially in the expression miles away, to refer to a long distance.
例句
If you enrol at a gym that's miles away, you won't be visiting it as often as you should...
如果你加入的健身館非常遠，就不會去得那么經常了。
I was miles and miles from anywhere...
我離任何地方都非常遠。
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很大的程度（強調區別或目標與現實的差距）
Miles or a mile is 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.
例句
You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays...
你比當下我們見到的大多數表演者都強多了。
With a Labour candidate in place they won by a mile...
有一個工黨的候選人坐鎮，他們大獲全勝。
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PHRASE
思想不集中;開小差；走神
If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
例句
What were you thinking about? You were miles away.
你剛才在想什么呢？你開小差了。
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PHRASE
加倍努力；加把勁
If you say that someone is willing to go the extra mile, you mean that they are willing to make a special effort to do or achieve something.
例句
The President is determined 'to go the extra mile for peace'.
總統決心“為實現和平而加倍努力”。
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PHRASE
打老遠，一眼（認出）
If you say that you can see or recognize something a mile off, you are emphasizing that it is very obvious and easy to recognize.
例句
You can spot undercover cops a mile off.
你一眼就可以認出便衣警察。
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PHRASE
(因極度害怕或不愿面對)避而遠之，跑得遠遠的
If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
例句
If anybody had told me when I first got married that I was going to have seven children, I would have run a mile...
若是有人在我剛結婚時跟我說我會生7個孩子，我一定會躲得遠遠的。
I'm very squeamish and when I see needles I run a mile.
我神經非常脆弱，見到針頭就會逃之夭夭。
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PHRASE
顯而易見;很明顯
If you say that something or someone sticks out a mile or stands out a mile, you are emphasizing that they are very obvious and easy to recognize.
例句
'How do you know he's Irish?' —'Sticks out a mile.'...
“你是怎么知道他是愛爾蘭人的呢？”——“明擺的事嘛。”
We stood out a mile on that first day at school.
上學第一天，我們就非常惹人注意。