The distances of this excursion were: From Reikjavik to Krisuvik, 37 miles; from Krisuvik to Keblevik, 39 miles; from Keblevik to Reikjavik, 38 miles: total, 114 miles.英文原著 · 《A Visit to Iceland》
Here was six men's food for one day, or one man's food for six days. He would live on a third of this, and he would have rations for eighteen days. Eighteen days! What could he not do in eighteen days? He could walk thirty miles a day-- forty miles a day--that would be six hundred miles and more. Yet stay; he must not be too sanguine; the road was difficult; the scrub was in places impenetrable. He would have to make d�tours, and turn upon his tracks, to waste precious time. He would be moderate, and say twenty miles a day.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
All our horses were good, and we bowled along as if we were going to ride for a week without stopping. What a ride it was! It was a grand night, anyway I thought so. I blessed the stars, I know. Mile after mile, and still the horses seemed to go all the fresher the farther they went. I felt I could ride on that way for ever. As the horses pulled and snorted and snatched at their bridles I felt as happy as ever I did in my life. Mile after mile it was all the same; we could hear Rainbow snorting from time to time and see his star move as he tossed up his head.英文原著 · 《Robbery Under Arms》
Much of interest in the connection must necessarily be omitted for want of space. About forty miles below the Cascades the river receives the Willamette, the last of its great tributaries. It is navigable for ocean vessels as far as Portland, ten miles above its mouth, and for river steamers a hundred miles farther. The Falls of the Willamette are fifteen miles above Portland, where the river, coming out of dense woods, breaks its way across a bar of black basalt and falls forty feet in a passion of snowy foam, showing to fine advantage against its background of evergreens.英文原著 · 《Steep Trails》
TRY A LIGHT TURBINE. RISE A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING,--RISE HALF A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING, AND SO ON. OR SLANT UP AND SLANT DOWN. --Poh! You ain't such a fool as to think that is new,--are you? "Put in my telegraph project. Central station. Cables with insulated wires running to it from different quarters of the city.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
Iceland lies in the Atlantic ocean; its greatest breadth is 240 geographical miles, and its extreme length from north to south 140 miles. The number of inhabitants is estimated at 48,000, and the superficial extent of the island at 29,800 square miles.英文原著 · 《A Visit to Iceland》
"I was writing Wallace's majority opinion on Miles..." He said "Miles," didn't he?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
"Walk a mile in her shoes." So let's do that. Let's have you walk a mile...美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》