单词 | metric mile |
释义 | > as lemmasmetric mile metric mile n. Sport (chiefly Athletics) a distance of 1500 metres (also, esp. in Horse Racing: a distance of 1600 metres, approx. 1750 yards); a race run over this distance (in Athletics, regarded as the modern equivalent of the mile race). ΚΠ 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 July 95/1 Even little Luxembourg has a fellow..who..rates with Dodds as a contender in the metric mile. 1976 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 June 1/4 She is ranked seventh in the world in..the ‘metric mile’ or 1,500-meter run. 1999 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 1 Nov. Ritchie publicly predicted last Thursday that Showella could not win the $30,000 Jim and John Evans Metric Mile. < as lemmas |
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