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mile-marker

/mahyl-mahr-ker/US // ˈmaɪlˌmɑr kər //

里程碑,里程碑式人物,里程碑式样,里程标

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.

Examples

  • 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.

  • Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.

  • Some pilots consider the infrared marker to be crucial to the close air-support mission to support ground troops.

  • Each one seems a mile high, and the entire flight an insurmountable obstacle.

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

  • General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.

  • Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.

  • They had proceeded a mile when Bruno came running back, showing by his manner he had news to impart.

  • The procession made its way slowly towards the river, three quarters of a mile to the east.