| 单词 | road mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad mile road mile n. a mile (mile n.1) as travelled by road; sometimes opposed to an air mile, nautical mile, etc. Π a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 284 His Discourse is like the Road-Miles in the North, the filthier and dirtier the longer. 1732 J. Horsley Britannia Romana iii. ii. 385 The ratio..is compounded of the ratio of a Roman to an English mile, and of a horizontal to a road mile. 1800 J. Rennell Geogr. Syst. Herodotus ii. 33 The mean march..has been shewn to be rather above 14 road miles of British measure. 1918 F. R. Keefer Text-bk. Elem. Mil. Hygiene (ed. 2) viii. 105 A British military sanitarian..estimates the life of a sock to be only 60 to 70 road miles. 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Motoring section) 4 If an air mile equals 1.35 road miles, an R22 [helicopter] flies for less than 32p per mile. < as lemmas |
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