| 单词 | a million miles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa million miles 2. colloquial. a million miles. extracted from millionadj.n. a. Hyperbolically: a very great distance, many miles. ΚΠ 1845 D. W. Jerrold Time works Wonders ii. i. 21 I hope they'll carry her a million miles up the country. 1871 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 651 Your eyes seem a million miles away. I think I am going—to sleep. 1895 K. Chopin Regret 147 Her husband was away in Texas—it seemed to her a million miles away. 1942 D. Thomas Let. May (1987) 497 I've got to write, because you're a million miles away, in the mild and bitter north. 1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xv. 114 It [sc. a letter] might cause her to run a million miles. b. figurative. Chiefly in a million miles (away, etc.) from: far from, very different from; not a million miles (away, etc.) from: remarkably similar to. ΚΠ 1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. iv. xxvii. 62 That rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xxviii. 345 A gentleman visiting round among his friends and a million miles from wanting to butt in with business. 1973 Times 23 Apr. 5/6 A formula not a million miles removed from that of BBC 2's now defunct Late Night Line-up. 1993 Hot Air Oct. 54/2 An abrasive, blokish sort of comedian, whose quick-fire standup routines are a million miles away from the Cambridge-bred humour of the acceptable face of alternative comedy. 1999 Spark (Reading Univ. Students' Union) 1 Feb. 5/3 The number one question by a million miles. < as lemmas |
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