In the US, distance is measured in miles.

在美国，测量距离以英里作单位。

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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。

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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。

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"Farewell,General Lee! I wish for your sake and mine that every damned Yankee on earth was sunk ten miles in hell!"

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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。

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Sometimes they give you the speed in miles per hour, kilometers per year, pounds per square foot.

有时候速度的单位是英里/小时,千米/年,英磅/平方米

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Of course, next door or down the block in Vegas is measured in miles.

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Withington Leisure Centre is set to close along with pools in Miles Platting, Broadway and Levenshulme.

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And they reflect the vast distance in miles and in philosophy between Geneva and, say, Macao.

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