mile是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 英里， 哩， 海里，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon a confused sound was heard of bellowing and neighing and bleating, and about a mile to the south immense flocks appeared, rushing and tumbling over each other in the greatest disorder, as they hurried pell-mell along with inconceivable rapidity.
-- Paganel gave in, though regretfully, to the arguments of Lady Helena, and still kept up a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of Isolation, till the very moment the DUNCAN dropped anchor about a mile off Amsterdam Island.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt.
-- He was on the moor path, about a quarter of a mile off, and a lady was by his side who could only be Miss Stapleton.
-- 'Not more than a mile or two off.'
-- So as the fog-bank flowed onward we fell back before it until we were half a mile from the house, and still that dense white sea, with the moon silvering its upper edge, swept slowly and inexorably on.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It fell from a great height, but it looked quite low, and it was half a mile away, though it did not seem fifty paces.
-- The whole flock went with me to the station, which was about a mile from the village, and every now and then one of them would stop to throw his arms round me, and all the little girls had tears in their voices, though they tried hard not to cry.
-- When I was in Switzerland I used to look with as-tonishment at the many ruins of feudal castles perched on the top of steep and rocky heights, half a mile at least above sea-level, so that to reach them one had to climb many miles of stony tracks.
-- So the two proceeded for half a mile or so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Thomas Marvel was sitting with his feet in a ditch by the roadside over the down towards Adderdean, about a mile and a half out of Iping.
-- "If this don't beat cock-fighting!Most remarkable! And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, 'arf a mile away!Not a bit of you visible except " He scrutinised the apparently empty space keenly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
-- Perhaps half a mile along the beach I became aware of one of my three Beast Folk advancing out of the landward bushes towards me.
-- But with a certain lack of prac-tical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the sea; and before I had dragged it down to the beach the thing had fallen to pieces.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law.
-- Teacher of the Law cub-beater a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open.
-- Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Broth-er's back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.
-- That opens out on the plain not half a mile from here.
-- The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you journey to the lake, you have mistaken your route,' said Heyward, haughtily; 'the highway thither is at least half a mile behind you.'
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- repeated the scout; 'I wouldn't walk a mile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies.
-- Mile after mile was, however, passed through the bound-less woods, in this painful manner, without any prospect of a termination to their journey.
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