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A country mile 遥远的距离
    2021-06-24  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A: What happened on your trip to your auntie’s? I heard you arrived long after supper.

B: You know I had just got my driver’s license and was so excited about my first trip alone taking out my dad’s car. I had no idea that the car was running out of gas. It broke down in the middle of nowhere, so I had to walk a country mile to the next gas station to buy some petrol.

Note: This term means “a long distance, especially when one expects it to be shorter.” Rural distances seem to be much longer than city folk think, so when a farmer says that the turnoff is “just a mile down the road,” that mile can stretch on interminably. The phrase used to be regularly used by baseball radio broadcasters to describe the distance of a long home run.

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