1. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.
    平赫特离锡尔伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯.斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了只鸽子。

2. Marx would shorten the miles for his children by telling them stories without end — fantastic tales which he made up as he went along, so that the little ones forgot their fatigue.
    马克思还会为孩子们没完没了地讲故事来缩短行程——讲一些他一边走一边编出来的稀奇古怪的故事，这样这些小东西就忘却了她们的疲劳。

3. Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away.
    他瞥了一眼地图，告诉我们前面再走不到20英里就是一个村庄。

4. You can enjoy the extraordinary sight of unbroken cloud plains that stretch out for miles before you, while the sun shines brilliantly in a clear sky.
    你可以观赏一下展现在你面前的、一望数英里的、连绵不断的云海，同时阳光灿烂，天空清澈明朗。

5. But belongs to the air, travelling it may be six thousand miles to and from its northern nesting home, feeding its flown young as it flies,
    在空中十分自如，可以飞行6，000英里，可以飞往北方做窝的老家，再从老家飞回；一边飞一边喂养会飞的雏燕，甚至在顶风时也能在气流中滑翔，似乎气流在帮它前进。这些鸟对我们是有益的，

6. But by now the Thermopylae was over five hundred miles ahead.
    但此时，"赛姆皮雷"号早已在500多英里之遥了。

7. Upon leaving Paris, trains will whistle along at an approximate speed of 186 miles per hour until they go underground, but will creep along as slow as 50 miles per hour behind local trains the last 68 miles to London.
    火车离开巴黎，呼啸着以大约186英里的时速驶入地下，行至距伦敦68英里处的时候，却只能跟在当地的火车后面，以每小时50英里的速度慢慢爬行。

8. Our troops have advanced 2 miles.
    我们的军队前进了两英里。

9. One woman lived eight miles from town, had a drinking problem and thought she was pregnant.
    有一名妇女住在离城8英里的地方，她酗酒，而且认为自己怀孕了。

10. On July 3, 1947, a U.S. Army airplane disappeared 100 miles off Bermuda without broadcasting any word of difficulty.
    1947年7月3日，一架美国空军飞机消失在百慕大附近100英里的地方，事先没有任何遇难警示。