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English term or phrase:
a dozen distances
English answer:
12 different distances (12 different lengths of distance to run)
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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a dozen distances
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As below:
...blurred and broken by the morning mist, which could hardly be called a fog; and forming a perspective of a dozen distances.
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Ultrarunning is so diverse: you have a dozen distances, times, track runs, road, trail, three-legged races.
...blurred and broken by the morning mist, which could hardly be called a fog; and forming a perspective of a dozen distances.
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Ultrarunning is so diverse: you have a dozen distances, times, track runs, road, trail, three-legged races.
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| 4 | 12 different distances (different lengths of distance),... |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| 3 +1 | See comment below... |
Tony M
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| 3 | une douzaine de mesures possibles...en distance, |
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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12 different distances (different lengths of distance),...
Yes, it means there are twelve different distances, all different kinds of lengths to run.
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Note added at 20 mins (2005-02-22 00:52:43 GMT)
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It is more poetic in the first phrase and more sporty in the second but it means the same thing.
Lots of different ways to go, distances to go, many different things to do....
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Note added at 20 mins (2005-02-22 00:52:43 GMT)
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It is more poetic in the first phrase and more sporty in the second but it means the same thing.
Lots of different ways to go, distances to go, many different things to do....
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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une douzaine de mesures possibles...en distance,
il y a une douzaine de mesures possibles...en distance, temps, etc.
non-standard
see his website below - seems to be discussing the global scene of ultrarunning and the fact that he is not tops in the world
non-standard
see his website below - seems to be discussing the global scene of ultrarunning and the fact that he is not tops in the world
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7 hrs
See comment below...
As Anna says, the second mention is clearly sports-related, since 'distance' in terms of running (etc.) means a race run over a specific distance, like 100 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 10,000 m etc. So 'distance' here has a very specific 'sports technical' meaning.
The first mention does seem as Anna says more 'poetic', though I'm a tiny bit puzzled about the sentence construction; at first, I thought it was 'the mist' that was 'forming a perspective...', but on closer reading, I realized that this doesn't really follow on, especially with that semi-colon. So maybe the 'forming...' is relating to something earlier, and does indeed refer to this same sporting use of 'distance'.
At the same time, you know how a slightly misty landscape can give an impression of being in 'layers' or 'planes', at different distances from the viewer --- so maybe the 'poetic' meaning was the one intended, or maybe a bit of both...
The first mention does seem as Anna says more 'poetic', though I'm a tiny bit puzzled about the sentence construction; at first, I thought it was 'the mist' that was 'forming a perspective...', but on closer reading, I realized that this doesn't really follow on, especially with that semi-colon. So maybe the 'forming...' is relating to something earlier, and does indeed refer to this same sporting use of 'distance'.
At the same time, you know how a slightly misty landscape can give an impression of being in 'layers' or 'planes', at different distances from the viewer --- so maybe the 'poetic' meaning was the one intended, or maybe a bit of both...
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