miss by a mile
基本解釋
- 失誤極大
英漢例句
- But they look set to miss that goal by a mile (see chart).
但看來他們勢必會跟預(yù)期的目標(biāo)相差甚遠(yuǎn)(見表)。 - Too diffuse a beam, and they would miss each other by the subatomic equivalent of a mile.
要是光束太散,它們就會在亞原子世界裡以相儅於一英裡的距離錯失對方,不能碰撞。 - You run across old friends every day, but you usually miss them by half a mile or by a couple of minutes.
通常,你每天穿梭於老朋友之間, 但也許經(jīng)常和他們衹相距半公裡或者十幾分鍾的路程。 - The government wants 50% of young people to go into higher education by 2010, a target it looks likely to miss by a mile.
ECONOMIST: The birth pangs of a market in higher education - Too diffuse a beam, and they would miss each other by the subatomic equivalent of a mile.
ECONOMIST: Simon van der Meer The