英语词汇four-minute mile的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

four-minute mile. Today high school runners run sub-four- minute miles, but for at least most of the 20th century, such a time was thought by many experts to be an almost impossible barrier to break. Others kept on trying and finally, in 1954 at Oxford, British Dr. Roger Bannister (b. 1929) achieved this holy grail of runners with a time of three minutes 59.4 seconds. Bannister’s record stood for 25 years before Sebastian Coe broke it in 1979. Today Algerian runner Noureddine Morceli holds the record with a 1993 time of three minutes 44.39 sec- onds. “The fastest man alive,” however, is a title reserved for the 100-meter dash world record holder—today Tim Montgomery of the United States, whose 2002 time is 9.78 seconds (about 27 miles per hour).

词汇	four-minute mile
词源	four-minute mile. Today high school runners run sub-four- minute miles, but for at least most of the 20th century, such a time was thought by many experts to be an almost impossible barrier to break. Others kept on trying and finally, in 1954 at Oxford, British Dr. Roger Bannister (b. 1929) achieved this holy grail of runners with a time of three minutes 59.4 seconds. Bannister’s record stood for 25 years before Sebastian Coe broke it in 1979. Today Algerian runner Noureddine Morceli holds the record with a 1993 time of three minutes 44.39 sec- onds. “The fastest man alive,” however, is a title reserved for the 100-meter dash world record holder—today Tim Montgomery of the United States, whose 2002 time is 9.78 seconds (about 27 miles per hour).
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