| 单词 | irish mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish mile Irish mile n. the customary length of a mile in Ireland, 2240 yards (approx. 2048 metres) (see mile n.1 1a) (now historical); (now chiefly colloquial) a long distance; an indeterminate or unfixed distance; cf. country mile n. at country n. and adj. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1v/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Eight dayes iourney, rating of long Irish myles, 40. miles to the day. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 112 Eleven Irish Miles make 14 English. 1854 R. S. Mackenzie in R. L. Shell Sketches of Irish Bar II. 181 Stephen's Green is a square in Dublin, an Irish mile in circumference. 1910 C. Healy Escapades Candy Corrigan ii. 22 The men had never seen the like of it before, for they could have sworn that there wasn't a rabbit within an Irish mile of them. 1912 W. S. Blunt Land War in Ireland ix. 339 Twenty weariful Irish miles. 1980 G. Seymour Contract vii. 82 ‘How tight is our group?’ ‘How long is an Irish mile?’ < as lemmas |
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