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The length of their driving experience.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
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Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文
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The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
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Although many attribute Kodak's downfall to "complacency(自滿) ," that explanation doesn't acknowledge the lengths to which the company went to reinvent itself.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
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The plane stretches a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will eventually be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane's exterior.
2019年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
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The plane?stretches?a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will?eventually?be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane's?exterior.
2019年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
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We wanted to know if the length of time food is in contact with a contaminated surface affected the rate of transfer of bacteria to the food.
2018年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
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N-VAR
長度；距離
The length of something is the amount that it measures from one end to the other along the longest side.
例句
It is about a metre in length.
它長約1米。
...the length of the fish...
魚的身長
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N-VAR
（文章等的）篇幅
The length of something such as a piece of writing is the amount of writing that is contained in it.
例句
...a book of at least 100 pages in length...
一百多頁厚的書
The length of a paragraph depends on the information it conveys.
段落的長短取決于它所傳達的信息量。
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N-VAR
（持續）時間的長短
The length of an event, activity, or situation is the period of time from beginning to end for which something lasts or during which something happens.
例句
The exact length of each period may vary...
每一階段的確切時長可能會有所不同。
His film, over two hours in length, is a subtle study of family life.
他這部片長逾兩個小時的電影對家庭生活進行了巧妙的剖析。
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N-COUNT
（繩、布、木頭等的）一段，一節，一截
A length of rope, cloth, wood, or other material is a piece of it that is intended to be used for a particular purpose or that exists in a particular situation.
例句
...a 30ft length of rope...
一根30英尺長的繩子
You can hang lengths of fabric behind the glass.
你可以在玻璃后面掛幾條織品。
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N-UNCOUNT
（與短相對的）長
The length of something is its quality of being long.
例句
Many have been surprised at the length of time it has taken him to make up his mind...
他居然花了那么長時間才拿定主意，許多人都對此感到吃驚。
I noticed, too, the length of her fingers.
我也注意到她的手指很長。
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N-COUNT
（游泳池的）池長
If you swim a length in a swimming pool, you swim the distance from one end to the other.
例句
I swim 40 lengths a day.
我每天游20個來回。
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N-COUNT
（賽艇中的）艇位；（賽馬中的）馬位，馬身長度
In boat racing or horse racing, a length is the distance from the front to the back of the boat or horse. You can talk about one boat or horse being one or more lengths in front of or behind another.
例句
Harvard won by four lengths.
哈佛大學隊領先4個艇位勝出。
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N-SING
全程；全長
If something happens or exists along the length of something, it happens or exists for the whole way along it.
例句
I looked along the length of the building...
我的目光沿著大樓從首到尾掃過。
The inspiration stemming from his travels lasted the length of his career.
由旅行得來的靈感伴隨了他的整個職業生涯。
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PHRASE
終究；終歸；最終
If someone does something at length, they do it after a long period of time.
例句
At length my father went into the house.
我父親最后還是進了屋。
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PHRASE
長久地；詳盡地
If someone does something at length, they do it for a long time or in great detail.
例句
They spoke at length, reviewing the entire incident.
他們把事情的整個經過詳盡地復述了一遍。
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PHRASE
不遺余力；竭盡全力；千方百計
If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
例句
Greta Garbo went to great lengths to hide from reporters and photographers.
葛麗泰·嘉寶想方設法躲開記者和攝影師。