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：
-- Let him go let him go; 'tis but one man, and he without rifle or bow, many a long mile from his French commerades; and like a rattler that lost his fangs, he can do no further mischief, until such time as he, and we too, may leave the prints of our moccasins over a long reach of sandy plain.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone.
-- The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
-- After a walk of a mile and a half, the shore presented no curve which would permit them to return to the north.
-- The islet and the coast were separated by a channel about half a mile in breadth, through which rushed an extremely rapid current.
-- Half a mile from the shore rose the islet, which somewhat resembled the carcass of a gigantic whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They trudged forward, more slowly and painfully than they had done yet, for another mile or thereabouts, when they heard the sound of wheels behind them, and looking round observed an empty cart approaching pretty briskly.
-- 'Why, the fact is,' said Short, 'that we are going the longest way, because then we could stop for the night, a mile and a half on.
-- But three or four mile gained to-night is so many saved to-morrow, and if you keep on, I think our best way is to do the same.'
-- 'Rough or smooth,' said Mr Codlin, beating his hand on the little footboard where Punch, when suddenly struck with the symmetry of his legs and their capacity for silk stockings, is accustomed to exhibit them to popular admiration, 'rough or smooth, I won't go further than the mile and a half to-night.
-- Quickening their steps to get clear of all the roar and riot, they at length passed through the town and made for the race-course, which was upon an open heath, situated on an eminence, a full mile distant from its furthest bounds.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position.
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
-- The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it.
-- The forest, I calculated, was rather less than a mile across.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They can't be bees nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know ' and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its proboscis into them, 'just as if it was a regular bee,' thought Alice.
-- The Walrus and the CarpenterWalked on a mile or so,And then they rested on a rockConveniently low:And all the little Oysters stoodAnd waited in a row.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.
-- We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.
-- There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside.
-- I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
-- Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood.
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