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odometer

/oh-dom-i-ter/US // oʊˈdɒm ɪ tər //UK // (ɒˈdɒmɪtə, əʊ-) //

路码表,路程表,路径表,路德表

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.

Examples

  • The guitar was a present, but it would dominate the back seat of my Volkswagen sedan, which has wobbly tires, a full trunk and 100,000 miles on the odometer.

  • Although the rules limited its use to inter-office travel on official government business, the truck’s odometer showed it drove 77,000 miles in the three years Ellicott had it, according to the tax office.

  • For all of the miles New Horizons will put on its odometer, it will never set the record for the greatest distance a spacecraft will travel from Earth—the best it can do is come in fifth.

  • She also uses a separate handlebar odometer, so she doesn’t have to rely on her phone for mileage.

  • Inferno pegs the odometer needle into the red at the outset and stays there for nearly 500 pages.

  • We had been absent on our tour six weeks to a day and our odometer registered exactly 3070 miles.

  • The writer was given charge of the compass and the odometer, with instructions to report daily to Lieutenant Duane.

  • The odometer line measured to-day was twenty and a half miles.

  • Toward half past five the odometer on one of the dog-sleds registered a distance of three-quarters of a mile made since morning.

  • The other odometer, which was much more curious, appears to have been constructed by that emperor himself23.