That is why the poet has to turn and twist them in metre and verse, so that the meaning may be held somewhat in check, and the feeling allowed a chance to express itself.

正因为如此，诗人把它们组成韵律和诗句，以便使它们的含意含蓄些，使感情能够得到一个自然流露的机会。

youdao

Davis won the 400 metre hurdles in a new Olympic time of 49.3 sec.

戴维斯以49.3秒这一新的奥运会记录在400米跨栏赛跑中夺冠。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He said he would aim for the 100 metre world record at the world championships in August.

他说他将以在8月举行的世界锦标赛上打破100米世界纪录为目标。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Verse in which there is nothing but the beat of the metre furnished by the accents of the polysyllabic words we call doggerel. Verse is not that.

诗句中没有其他的东西,只有节奏,这节奏是由多音节的词造成的,我们叫打油诗，诗歌不是这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Vastitas Borealis, the area that Phoenix has landed in, gets covered in a metre-deep layer of frozen carbon dioxide.

ECONOMIST: Space exploration

Vastitas Borealis, the area that Phoenix has landed in, will be covered in a metre-deep layer of frozen carbon dioxide.

ECONOMIST: Exploring Mars

Letting the newly programmed HAUV loose on the Curtiss, a 183-metre military-support ship in San Diego, and the Seneca, an 82-metre cutter in Boston, showed that a robot can do the job.

ECONOMIST: Monitor