metre

英 ['miːtə] 美

1. 音译“米”，取自首音节。

metre 米，公尺，格律

来自meter的英式拼写。

metre: metre: [14] Greek métron meant ‘measure’: it came ultimately from the Indo-European base *me- ‘measure’, which also produced English measure, immense, etc. English originally acquired it, via Latin metrum and Old French metre, in the sense ‘measured rhythmic pattern of verse’. Then at the end of the 18th century French mètre was designated as the standard measure of length in the new metric system, and English reborrowed it as metre. Meter ‘measuring device’ [19] is probably a nominalization of the element -meter, occurring in such compounds as galvanometer [19], gasometer [18], and pedometer [18], which itself went back via French -mètre or modern Latin -metrum to Greek métron.
=> commensurate, immense, measure, mete
metre (n.): chiefly British English spelling of meter (n.); for spelling, see -re.

2. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.: 他们必须每人作一首严格押头韵的诗。

4. Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.: 对英国200米纪录发起的3次冲击也均以失败而告终。