mile: [OE] Latin mille denoted ‘thousand’ (it is the source of English millennium [17], etymologically a ‘thousand years’, and, via Italian and French, of million [14]). Its plural mīllia was used in ancient Rome for a measure of length equal to a thousand paces. This was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *mīlja, which has subsequently differentiated into German meile, Dutch mijl, and English mile. (The English mile is over 100 yards longer than the Roman one was.) => millennium, million
mile (n.)
Old English mil, from West Germanic *milja (cognates: Middle Dutch mile, Dutch mijl, Old High German mila, German meile), from Latin milia "thousands," plural of mille "a thousand" (neuter plural was mistaken in Germanic as a fem. singular), of unknown origin.
The Latin word also is the source of French mille, Italian miglio, Spanish milla. The Scandinavian words (Old Norse mila, etc.) are from English. An ancient Roman mile was 1,000 double paces (one step with each foot), for about 4,860 feet, but there were many local variants and a modern statute mile is about 400 feet longer. In Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, the Latin word was applied arbitrarily to the ancient Germanic rasta, a measure of from 3.25 to 6 English miles. Mile-a-minute (adj.) "very fast" is attested from 1957.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The President is determined "to go the extra mile for peace".
總統(tǒng)決心“為實(shí)現(xiàn)和平而加倍努力”。
來自柯林斯例句
2. "How do you know he's Irish?" —"Sticks out a mile."
“你是怎么知道他是愛爾蘭人的呢？”——“明擺的事嘛。”
來自柯林斯例句
3. He closed his door and started the quarter-mile walk down the hill.
他關(guān)上門,踏上了1/4英里長(zhǎng)的下山路.
來自柯林斯例句
4. A 25 mile traffic jam clogged the northbound carriageway of the M6.
長(zhǎng)達(dá)25英里的交通擁堵阻塞了M6號(hào)高速公路的北行車道。
來自柯林斯例句
5. We stood out a mile on that first day at school.