as the crow flies

基本解釋

I set up my new life in a 300 square-foot studio apartment 14 miles from Walden Pond as the crow flies.
群鴉亂舞，在離瓦爾登湖14英里的一間300平方英尺的公寓里，我開(kāi)始了自己新的生活。
A river's meandering is described by its sinuosity – the length along its winding path divided by the distance from source to ocean as the crow flies.
一條河流的彎曲程度用它的曲折度來(lái)衡量，曲折度指的是沿著河流彎曲路徑的長(zhǎng)度除以從源頭到入海處的直線距離。
For example, when I am driving, I always travel as the crow flies.
比如說(shuō)，我開(kāi)車時(shí)總像烏鴉飛一樣。

For example,when I am driving, I always travel as the crow flies.
It may not be as the crow flies and may be long way around,
它可能不是直線最短距離，可能繞得很遠(yuǎn)，
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not necessarily quickest route as the crow flies.
不必是最快的直線距離。
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Only 40 miles east of the Greenbrier as the crow flies, the Homestead, in Hot Springs, Virginia, is no less steeped in tradition--one of those traditions being the cross-mountain rivalry between the resorts.
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used to say that a distance is measured in a straight line between two points or places