In the US, distance is measured in miles.
在美国，测量距离以英里作单位。
They creep along in miles long traffic jams on the interstate.
汽车总是爬行在州际之间的英里长的交通堵塞中。
And I still take the quality of continual self-renewal in Miles Davis's music as a literary model.
我亦仍然采取迈尔士戴维斯不断自我更新音乐的质量作为一种文学模式。
We don't usually do our chemistry calculations in miles per hour, so let's switch that to 42 meters per second, so it's — sorry, it's 94 miles per hour.
在化学计算中我们很少，用英里每小时，所以我们把它换算为42米每秒，对不起，它是94英里每小时。
At Ford, with the internal-combustion engine and direct fuel injection, we're making a 25 percent improvement in miles per gallon and we're reducing CO2 [emissions] by 15 percent.
在福特，我们利用内燃机和燃油直喷技术，将每加仑燃油行驶里程数提高了25%，二氧化碳(排放)却下降了15%。
The program will be very elementary — it will calculate the distance travelled given a speed in miles-per-hour and a time in hours. Here is the code for the ppe (enter as ppe_distance.c).
这个程序非常基本——它计算在给定速度(单位为每小时英里数)和时间(单位为小时)情况下的旅行距离。
Miles is one of those little grey men you find in every company.
迈尔斯是那种你在每家公司都找得到的毫无特色的小个子男人。
In some cities this morning, there were traffic jams up to 40 miles long.
今晨在某些城市，出现了最长40英里的交通堵塞。
He walked two hundred and sixty miles in eight days.
他在八天里走了二百六十英里。
We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
我们最后在离城几英里的一家小旅馆里落脚。
As a result, planes were kept in a holding pattern, sometimes three or four miles apart, until they were cleared to land.
结果，飞机均被保持在等待航线状态，有时相隔三四英里，直至它们得到降落指示。
The river is 300 miles in length.
这条河长300英里。
The earth is almost 25 000 miles in circumference.
地球的周长大约为25 000英里。
St. Andrews was ten miles in the opposite direction.
圣安德鲁斯在相反方向的10英里处。
Walking four miles in an hour is pretty good going for me.
一小时走四英里对我来说是相当不错了。
The whales migrate some 6,000 miles to breed and calve in the warm lagoons.
这种鲸鱼环游了6,000英里到暖水湖里生育繁殖。
There are more than 400 miles of waterways to explore in the area.
此地有400多英里的航道有待勘察。
Known for her piety, she would walk miles to attend communion services in the neighbouring villages.
她的虔诚是出了名的，她会步行几英里去参加邻村的圣餐仪式。
In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratory buildings.
在日内瓦以西6英里的瑞士，有许多实验室建筑。
On her journey, Helen walked 345 miles in freezing weather conditions.
在旅途中，海伦在严寒的天气中走了345英里。
British scientists have discovered that the gigantic female turtles can swim for thousands of miles in a perfectly straight line.
英国的科学家发现，巨型雌性龟能在一条完全的直线上游行上千英里。
In contrast, the hundreds of miles of polythene sheeting used to produce tomatoes in Spain can be seen from space.
相比之下，人们可以从太空中看到在西班牙数百英里长的用来种植西红柿的聚乙烯薄膜。
The average runner can run 2 miles in fifteen minutes.
这名跑步的人水平一般，十五分钟可以跑两英里
The previous record was 3,003 billion miles in 2007, before the economic recession and high gas prices.
在经济衰退和油价上涨之前，之前的纪录是2007年的3.003万亿英里。
Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
它们将这些垃圾场作为冬季的进食地点，而非飞行数千英里去寻找食物。
For $22,155 it can go 30 miles per gallon in the city and 42 on the highway.
只需22155美元，每加仑就能在市区行驶30英里，在高速公路上行驶42英里。
At some 2,300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States.
密西西比河全长约2300英里，是美国最长的河流。
Then in the summer of 2009, he trekked about 670 miles from Atlanta to Washington, in just two months.
2009年的夏天，他从亚特兰大长途跋涉到华盛顿，全程670英里，只用了两个月的时间。
We can pick up the motorway in a few miles.
经过几英里以后我们就能上高速公路。
I began by jogging in the park and worked up to running five miles a day.
我开始在公园里慢跑，后来逐渐增加到一天跑五英里。
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