English Dictionary

square mile

noun

A unit of area (abbreviation sq mi or sq. mi. or mi²) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one mile long.

The city covers an area of 10 square miles.

意味（1）

A unit of area (abbreviation sq mi or sq. mi. or mi²) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one mile long.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.