- 1中距離（賽跑）
A middle-distance race is a running race that is not a short sprint and not a long marathon. The usual school and track examples are 800 metres and 1,500 metres. A middle-distance runner needs speed, but also enough breath to last more than a few seconds. Though actually, there is no perfect line on the track: some coaches still treat 400 metres as a sprint, and 3,000 metres already feels long. In pictures and landscapes, the middle distance is the part of the view between what is near you and what is far away — same idea of “the bit in between,” different job. Here we mean the race. You will see middle-distance as an adjective before runner or race.
middle-distance race 是介於短跑和馬拉松之間的賽跑，學校和田徑場上最常見的例子是 800 公尺和 1500 公尺。中距離跑者既要有速度，也要能撐過比短跑久得多的時間。這個詞放在名詞前面，固定寫法是「middle-distance ＿＿」，後面接 runner 或 race。
這條線其實沒有絕對的標準。有些教練仍把 400 公尺當成短跑，而 3000 公尺則已經讓人覺得很長。另外，在風景或圖畫裡，middle distance 指的是近景和遠景之間的那一段，同樣是中間的意思，但這裡說的是比賽。
組成middle + distance: the race length that sits between short and long.
同家族的字
- middlethe first half: not the start and not the end
- distancethe second half: how far you run
- long-distancesame pattern, used for the long races
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
middle-distanceadj
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athleticshobbieslifestyleDesignating a race of length greater than that of a sprint but less than several kilometres
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