(especially in horse racing )尤指賽馬 a unit for measuring distance, equal to 220 yards or 201 metres; one eighth of a mile 弗隆,浪(長度單位,相當於 220 碼、201 米或 ¹⁄₈ 英裏) Word OriginOld English furlang, from furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’. The word originally denoted the length of a furrow in a common field (formally regarded as a square of ten acres). It was also used as the equivalent of the Roman stadium, one eighth of a Roman mile, which led to the current sense. Compare with stadium.