Some of their hit songs include "500 Miles", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer."

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Suppose you're the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley car is hurtling down the track at 60 miles an hour.

假设你是一名电车司机，你的电车以60英里/小时的速度,在轨道上飞驰。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And Timlin who is about 91 miles per hour, Timlin So, why don't you take ten seconds to do that.

我们的继投手之一，能做到91公里每小时，one，of，our，relievers。,你们为什么不再花10秒钟,来做这道题？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and pianists Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell were some of them.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Between the 1620s and the 1740s, the land of the Russian empire increases from 2.1 million square miles to 5.9 million square miles.

在17世纪20年代到40年代间,俄帝国的领土,由210万平方英里,增加到590万平方英里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Over the years, the Newport Jazz Festival presented greats like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

except when the car is running at 50 miles per hour and they pour all their money into it and they were wiped out.

只有在汽车以时速50公里前行时才管用,可他们把钱全投到了这个东西上,最后只得破产。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And then you do twenty-plus miles the next day,you sleep in a tent, you gotta wake up and you got to do it again.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

He went 70. I tingled all over. I counted minutes and subtracted miles.

他其实有70了，我太激动了，算着时间和英里数。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Let us not forget that we have miles to go to overturn the prejudice and oppression facing the world's one hundred eighty million citizens with intellectual disabilities."

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The longest ditch in the world, as it was called, 300-and-some-odd miles out to Buffalo.

当时它号称是世界最长的运河,长达三百多英里,又纽约州向布法罗城

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

When Shepard did hit the golf balls, they traveled "for miles and miles," as he reported, because the gravity on the moon is one-sixth of the gravity on Earth.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

And Philadelphia is only 11 miles north of Swarthmore.

费城在斯沃斯莫尔北边只有11英里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The earthquake had a magnitude of seven and was felt hundreds of miles away and in the Indonesian capital,Jakarta.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I was in Richmond,Virginia, and my son was about 250 miles away, in Philadelphia with my mom,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Two hours,you can be on a damn train to New York City and you'll be lucky if you get eighty miles in two hours, or an hour and fifty minutes.

要知道,两个小时都可以做火车去纽约了,但如果是步行,八十公里你一个小时五十分钟,到两个小时内走到就算不错了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Although it was a limited-run program, hundreds of tracks by Miles Davis were beamed across the country, non-stop and commercial-free for five straight days.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Now Attica is, in fact, approximately 1,000 square miles, which I am told is about the size of Rhode Island, and that's the biggest polis of which we know.

阿提卡,事实上,大约一千平方英里,我听说大概和罗德岛差不多大,而这就是我们所知的最大的城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"And in the evening, I usually run or walk for three or four miles a day."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

For example, if a car is going on a racetrack and you're seeing it from the top, if the speedometer says 60 miles per hour, you might say it's not accelerating.

例如,如果一辆车在跑道上行驶,你从上面俯视它,如果速率表显示的是60英里每小时,你也许会说它没有在加速

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Iceland's volcano erupted Wednesday and has since been spewing ash several miles into the air.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

He is doing 100 miles an hour down the Mass Pike and gets pulled over by a State Trooper.

他在以100迈的速度沿着Mass，Pike前进,被州警察挡住。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Lieutenant Commander Scott Murphy leads the crew. "This is the first day we've been out here and we've had blue skies and 10-15 miles of visibility."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

So, two random cities, XYZ and ABC, are 4,200 miles apart.

比如两个随机的城市XYZ和ABC相距4200英里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We have miles and miles of inlets in behind us for kayaking and sailing.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

I live in words Backban I walk a great deal, I live in the backban walking into class and home, that's 3 or 4 miles right there.

我生活在文字中,我常常走路，我住在,走来上课,走回家去，我家离这里大概三四英里远。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

His personal favorites were albums by Miles Davis,Dave Brubeck, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

He was born in relatively meager and humble circumstances in Kentucky, not what, about 80 miles from where Abraham Lincoln was born, in even meagerer circumstances.

他出生在肯塔基州一个,相对贫寒的家庭,不过不是约80英里外林肯出生的,那个更穷苦的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选