| 词汇 | mile |
| 词源 | mile. The Latin mille, “one thousand,” is the ancestor of our word mile, which is 5,280 feet, because it once referred to 1,000 paces of the Roman legion’s formal parade step, left foot and then right foot, each pace equalling 5.2 feet. |
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