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half-mile

/haf-mahyl, hahf‐/US // ˈhæfˈmaɪl, ˈhɑf‐ //

半英里,半里,半里地,半里路

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a half of a mile.
    • : a race of half a mile.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : measuring or running half a mile.

Examples

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

  • Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.

  • Beyond the huge American flag that hung over the street, the mile-long mass of cops ended.

  • As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

  • All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.