metre

noun

/ˈmiːtə(r)/

/ˈmiːtər/

(US English meter)

[countable]
(abbreviation m)
a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres米；公尺
- a 50-metre swimming pool50米长的游泳池
- Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.每隔几米，猫就停下来，转过头看着我。
- Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.办公室面积超过3 700平方米。
- The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.这座巨大的雕塑是由500立方米的冰制成的。
- an athlete running at 10 metres per second以每秒10米的速度奔跑的运动员
Topics Maths and measurementa1
[countable, uncountable]
(abbreviation m)
used in the name of races用于竞赛名称
- She came second in the 200 metres.在 200 米比赛中，她取得了第二名。
- the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay4 × 100 米接力赛
[uncountable, countable] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this（诗的）格律
- She knows a lot about verse metre.她很懂诗律。
- poems in a variety of metres不同韵律的诗
- the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer荷马史诗中的六度音阶
Topics Literature and writingc2

词源senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.

词汇	metre
释义	metre noun /ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/ (US English meter) [countable] (abbreviation m) a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres米；公尺 a 50-metre swimming pool50米长的游泳池 Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.每隔几米，猫就停下来，转过头看着我。 Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.办公室面积超过3 700平方米。 The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.这座巨大的雕塑是由500立方米的冰制成的。 an athlete running at 10 metres per second以每秒10米的速度奔跑的运动员 Topics Maths and measurementa1 [countable, uncountable] (abbreviation m) used in the name of races用于竞赛名称 She came second in the 200 metres.在 200 米比赛中，她取得了第二名。 the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay4 × 100 米接力赛 [uncountable, countable] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this（诗的）格律 She knows a lot about verse metre.她很懂诗律。 poems in a variety of metres不同韵律的诗 the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer荷马史诗中的六度音阶 Topics Literature and writingc2 词源senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’.
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