高考Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

直到1870年，当它们的数量已经变少时，在辛辛那提附近发现了一只宽1英里、长320英里、长约515公里的羊群。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Everything they know about you came through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away.

他们所知道的关于你的一切都是通过这个设备，有时是从几百英里以外的地方。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

高考He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him.

当一名志愿搜索者发现他时，他已经走了大约一英里。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.

它们主要是为低地球轨道（LEO）而设计的，低地球轨道是一个距离地球200到800英里的容易到达的空间区域，在那里人类可以执行哈勃太空望远镜和国际空间站（ISS）等任务。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

爆炸留下了一个40多英里宽的洞，从地面任何地方都看不到。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.

新的研究发现，在超过46000平方英里的加州森林中，直径超过2英尺的树木数量减少了50%。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

不到两年，它就高达近1400英尺，直径超过半英里。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.

该公司的自动驾驶汽车在美国各州行驶了100多万英里，迄今为止只报告了轻微事故。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

年轻时，他开始在有生之年步行数万英里，南至佛罗里达，西至加利福尼亚，北至阿拉斯加，在那里，读者们在一大片浮冰上进行了一次漫长而令人毛骨悚然的冒险

2013年6月听力原文

六级Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

在南极洲的其他地方，俄罗斯研究人员夸耀他们最近在钻穿数英里厚的固体冰后发现了安大略湖大小的淡水保护区。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

三周前，我目睹了在这里以西几英里处发生的一场小灾难。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

五十多年前，一位新罕布什尔州男子在1500英里外的一个瓶子里寄出了一条信息，并将其归还给了他的女儿。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

高考The transition, which flew at 1, 400 feet for eight minutes last month, can reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115 in the air.

这架上个月在1400英尺高空飞行了8分钟的飞机，在公路上的时速可达70英里，在空中的时速可达115英里。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研Dr Kroo points out that the aircraft could be separated by several nautical miles, and would not be in the intimate groupings favoured by display teams like the Red Arrows.

克罗博士指出，这架飞机可以相隔数海里，而且不会像红箭队这样被展示团队青睐的亲密群体。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Although the planned operation will be located more than miles away, drawing the soda ash in through pipelines, conservationists worry it could still upset the natural water cycle and breeding grounds.

尽管计划中的操作将位于数英里之外，通过管道将苏打灰引入，但自然资源保护主义者担心，这仍可能破坏自然水循环和滋生地。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Americans drove more miles last year than any other year on record.

美国人去年开车的英里数超过了有记录以来的任何一年。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级They are fifty-five miles apart.

他们相距五十五英里。

2013年12月听力原文

高考As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.

当我接近23英里时，我看到我妻子挥舞着一个标志。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级Andorra, with an area of some 200 square miles, is considerably larger than Monaco.

安道尔面积约200平方英里，比摩纳哥大得多。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.

两周后，她抵达阿拉斯加，距离她的朋友、家人和过去数千英里。

2013年12月听力原文

高考At mile 3, I passed a sign:" go for it, runners!".

在第三英里时，我路过一块牌子：“加油，跑步者！”。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

2月14日，这辆时速为2英里的自动驾驶汽车在一辆时速为15英里的公交车前停了下来。

2017年6月听力原文

四级The center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2, 000 miles away.

美国汽车创新中心在过去十年中已经迁移了2000英里。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考However, the closest supply was over 1, 000 miles away, in anchorage.

然而，最近的供应地在1000多英里外的安克雷奇。

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

四级There's no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.

在20多英里外的首尔没有连接宋多的高速列车。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

我把自行车送到四十英里外的商店已经够麻烦的了，更不用说五千英里了。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

高考Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

沙克尔顿曾是一名英国商船海军军官，1908年抵达南极100英里以内，1914年出航前开始创业，从电影和静物摄影中赚钱。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

你知道吗，除了法国和德国等较大的地方外，欧洲还有几个非常小的国家；其中一个国家的土地面积不足一平方英里。

2016年12月听力原文

四级Over $25 billion was appropriated by Congress, and construction began on about 40,000 miles of new roads.

国会拨款超过250亿美元，并开始修建约4万英里的新公路。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级When he was about half a mile out from the dark, he felt a bit tired.

当他离开黑暗大约半英里时，他感到有点累。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

考研When the EEOB was finished, it was the largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black and white tiled corridors.

当EEOB完工时，它是华盛顿最大的办公楼，有近2英里的黑白瓷砖走廊。

2018年考研阅读原文

高考But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

但是在接下来的一周里，设定一个目标，每次至少跑一英里半。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级the man whose horse trots（奔跑）a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

骑马小跑的人(奔跑）一分钟走一英里并不能传递最重要的信息。

2012年12月阅读原文

高考It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Lowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota.

从洛瓦中西部的山丘到明尼苏达州埃勒斯的家大约有250英里。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

四级California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

加州多年来一直面临干旱，某些地区甚至不得不向数百英里的分配系统输送淡水。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

上周，法国宣布，该国将在未来五年内用太阳能电池板铺设621英里的道路，目标是为500万人提供廉价的可再生能源。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

地震带长近700英里，位于太平洋不列颠哥伦比亚省、华盛顿、俄勒冈州和加利福尼亚州北部海岸外的北美板块附近。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考Wilson has covered am astonishing 64, 000 miles, and has had countless pleasant and often humorous conversations with the students he transports to and from school.

威尔逊走了64000英里的路程，和他接送的学生们进行了无数愉快且幽默的对话。

2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

高考They travelled over snow-covered mountains and sailed hundreds of miles up icy rivers.

他们在白雪覆盖的山脉上旅行，沿着结冰的河流航行数百英里。

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.

1699年，她和女儿从荷兰航行了近5000英里到南美洲，研究现在被称为苏里南的丛林中的昆虫。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Even though the nuts, which need to stay moist, can be somewhat delicate to transport, traders carried them hundreds of miles throughout the forests and grasslands.

尽管坚果需要保持湿润，但运输起来可能有点脆弱，贸易商们还是把它们运到了数百英里外的森林和草原上。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考With each day, increase the distance by a half mile.

每天增加半英里的距离。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 选项

高考Ehlers returned to minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to minneapolis to put rosie on a flight to Michigan.

埃勒斯回到了明尼阿波利斯，然后驱车100英里到达明尼阿波利斯，让罗西搭乘飞往密歇根的航班。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

四级Norwalk is about eighteen miles east of here on Route 7.

诺沃克在7号公路以东大约18英里处。

2013年12月听力原文

四级It lies seven miles east of Newton

它位于牛顿以东七英里处

2013年12月听力原文

考研Pyle was famous for covering the human side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were gained or what towns were captured or liberated.

派尔以报道战争中人类的一面而闻名，他写的是泥泞的雪地和泥泞的士兵，而不是他们走了多少英里，占领或解放了哪些城镇。

2012年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

他们没有飞行数千英里寻找食物，而是把这些垃圾场作为冬季的觅食地。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

她还得跑半英里多，只剩下几分钟了。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Back in 1972, when many of today’s parents were kids, 87 percent of children who lived within a mile of school walked or biked every day.

早在1972年，当今天的许多父母还是孩子的时候，87%住在离学校一英里以内的孩子每天步行或骑自行车。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and long line fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.

拖网捕鱼者（在水中和海底拖动大网）和长线捕鱼者（可以在绵延数英里的线上部署数千个钩子）对海龟造成了沉重的伤害。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that “the man whose horse trots (奔跑), a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

当电报和火车带来了便利比内容更重要的想法时，亨利·大卫·梭罗提醒我们，“一个骑马慢跑的人(奔跑), 一分钟一英里并不能传递最重要的信息。

2012年12月英语六级真题

四级At the speed of only 30 miles per hour it is the same as falling from a third-floor windows.

以每小时30英里的速度，这与从三楼窗户坠落的速度是一样的。

1989年1月英语四级真题

四级Some Scientists say that 16 of these mirrors, each about a half mile across, could aim their reflected light at one area on the earth that was about 200 miles by 300 miles.

一些科学家说，其中16面镜子，每面大约半英里宽，可以将反射光对准地球上一个大约200英里乘300英里的区域。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级The mirrors could orbit—thousands of miles high—at the same speed as the earth turns on its axis (轴).

这些镜子可以以与地球绕轴旋转相同的速度绕轨道运行——数千英里高(轴).

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级Once released a few hundred miles in space, the mirrors, powered by a solar-powered engine, could mark the rest of the trip into space on their own.

一旦在太空中释放几百英里，这些由太阳能发动机提供动力的镜子就可以独自完成剩余的太空之旅。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级Observers agreed that they had witnessed something unlike anything ever seen by men before, a huge, colorful fireball, more brilliant than the sun flashing as it rose for miles into the air.

观察者一致认为，他们看到了一个前所未有的东西，一个巨大的、五颜六色的火球，比太阳升到空中数英里时闪烁的还要明亮。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级By 1860 there were thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern mountain ranges and reaching westward to the Mississippi.

到1860年，有数千英里的铁路穿过东部山脉，向西到达密西西比河。

1991年1月英语四级真题

四级Yet 80 percent of accidents happen at speeds or less that 25 miles per hour, 75 percent happen within 25 miles of home.

然而，80%的事故发生的速度不超过每小时25英里，75%的事故发生在离家25英里以内。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark.

当孩子们明白闪电的光几乎在同一时刻到达他们的眼睛，但雷声只需5秒就可以传播一英里时，他们可以开始计时闪电和撞击之间的间隔，以了解他们离实际火花有多近。

1994年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons and as high as a 12 story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that will be scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long.

他们能告诉我们的最好消息是，这个重达77吨、高达12层楼的空间站将分解成数百块碎片，散落在100英里宽、4000英里长的轨道上。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级What worries Richard Smith, the Skylab’s director, is the “big pieces” that will come through the atmosphere, Two lumps, weighing 2 tons each, and ten, weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100 feet deep.

天空实验室主任理查德·史密斯担心的是将穿过大气层的“大块”，两块，每块重2吨，十块，每块至少重1000磅，将以每小时数百英里的速度进入，如果它们坠毁在陆地上，它们将挖出100英尺深的洞。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级That’s good to know, but it doesn’t remove the doubts of the millions who still remember the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

很高兴知道这一点，但这并不能消除数百万仍记得三里岛核事故的人的疑虑。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In Britain, the old Road Traffic Act restricted speeds to 2 m. p. h. (miles per hour) in towns and 4 m. p. h. in the country.

在英国，旧的《道路交通法》将城镇的车速限制在2英里/小时，全国的车速限制为4英里/小时。

1997年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air.

声音在水中的速度大约是每秒一英里——比陆地慢，但比空气快。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.

这种聚焦是海洋中即使是相对较弱的声音，尤其是低频声音，也能传播数千英里的主要原因。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In rejecting exercise, some people may be discouraged too much by caloric-expenditure charts: for example, one would have to briskly walk three miles just to work off the 275 calories in one delicious Danish pastry (小甜饼).

在拒绝运动的过程中，一些人可能会因为热量消耗表而过于气馁：例如，一个人必须轻快地走三英里，才能在一个美味的丹麦糕点中消耗掉275卡路里(小甜饼).

2005年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级If you have been sedentary (极少活动的) and decide to start walking one mile a day, the added exercise could burn an extra 100 calories daily.

如果你久坐不动(极少活动的) 如果决定开始每天走一英里，那么额外的运动每天可以额外燃烧100卡路里。

2005年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.

这辆车安装了远程防盗系统(锁止器), 来自几英里外控制中心的无线电信号将确保小偷一旦关闭发动机，就无法再次启动。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级With the increase in auto production, private turnpike (收费公路) companies under local authorities began to spring up, and by 1921 there were 387,000 miles of paved roads.

随着汽车产量的增加，私人收费公路(收费公路) 地方当局下属的公司开始涌现，到1921年，铺设的道路达到387000英里。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级A government study recommended a national highway system of 33,920 miles, and congress soon passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, which called for strict, centrally controlled design criteria.

一项政府研究建议修建33920英里的国家公路系统，国会很快通过了1944年的《联邦援助公路法》，该法案要求制定严格的中央控制设计标准。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级The death rate on highways is half that of all other U. S. roads (0.86 deaths per 100 million passenger miles compared to 1.99 deaths per 100 million on all other roads).

高速公路的死亡率是美国所有其他道路的一半（每1亿乘客英里0.86人死亡，而所有其他道路每1亿人死亡1.99人）。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级As a result, radio will increasingly attract target audiences who live many miles apart.

因此，广播将越来越多地吸引居住在相距数英里的目标受众。

2008年6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级But now, places have been found on earth that are in total blackness such as caves several miles beneath the ocean.

但现在，地球上已经发现了一些完全黑暗的地方，比如海底几英里的洞穴。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

加州多年来一直面临干旱，某些地区甚至不得不将淡水输送到数百英里外的配送系统。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级There’s no high-speed train connecting Songdo to Seoul, just over 20 miles away.

松岛和首尔之间没有高速列车，只有20多英里远。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级As grandparents have been saying for generations, kids would travel miles to school in the countryside (often on foot).

正如祖父母几代人一直说的那样，孩子们会长途跋涉去农村上学（通常是步行）。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研The continental ice sheet is more than two miles high in its centre, thus, the air over the Antarctic is far more refrigerated than it is over the Arctic regions.

大陆冰盖的中心有两英里多高，因此，南极上空的空气比北极地区的空气要冷得多。

1986年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Thus, more than a million persons live within 2,000 miles of the North Pole in an area that includes most of Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia -- a region rich in forest and mining industries.

因此，超过100万人生活在距离北极2000英里的范围内，该地区包括阿拉斯加、西伯利亚和斯堪的纳维亚半岛的大部分地区，该地区森林和采矿业丰富。

1986年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Added to that is an atmospheric pressure about 90 times Earth’s: High overhead in the carbon dioxide (CO2) that passes for air is a layer of clouds, perhaps 10 to 20 miles thick, whose little drops consist mostly of sulfuric acid (H2SO4).

除此之外，大气压力约为地球的90倍：在进入空气的二氧化碳（CO2）的高空是一层云层，厚度约为10至20英里，其小水滴主要由硫酸（H2SO4）组成。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Except for Florida and Texas, the top 10 in rate of growth is composed of Western states with 7.5 million people -- about 9 per square mile.

除佛罗里达州和得克萨斯州外，增长率排名前十的是西部各州，人口750万，约为每平方英里9人。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题