1. Everyone should agree on a meeting point outside of the area — perhaps in a town several miles away.
    大家应该商定一个地震区外的会合点——可能是在几英里外的某个市镇。

2. Bruce consulted the map once more and told us that the village was now only fifteen miles away.
    布鲁斯又看了一眼地图，告诉我们那座村庄离我们只有15英里了。

3. Byrd now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away, for there were no more mountains in sight.
    伯德这时知道他能够顺利飞抵300英里以外的南极了，因为前面再没有山了。

4. Bottles of dairy milk arrived in door ways, and women took them in, as though the war were a thousand miles away.
    一瓶瓶牛奶被送到一家家的门口，妇女们把它们取回家去，好像战争发生在千里之外似的。

5. For the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening.
    因为常常是早晨在甲地发现那只美洲狮，晚上却在20英里外的乙地发现它的踪迹。

6. We cantered our horses for several miles.
    我们骑著马慢跑了几英里.

7. It requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth´s surface into orbit!
    因此，从月球到地球的25万英里所消耗的能量要比从地球表面进入地球轨道的200英里所耗能量少97%。

8. It takes much less energy to accelerate to that 1.5 miles per second than it does on Earth.
    在月球上加速到每秒1.5英里比在地球上所用能源要少得多。

9. When the instrument is situated at more than 700 miles from the earthquake centre,
    如果把这种仪器安装在距震源700多英里远的地方，

10. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously.
    当伦敦动物园接到报告说，在伦敦以南45英里处发现一只美洲狮时，这些报告并没有受到重视。