the two armies camped almost within bowshot of each other
两支军队的营地相距仅一箭之遥。
Example sentencesExamples
The dangerous stretch of forest was already well within bowshot or he would have opted for stopping where they were to reorder their own ranks and let the enemy - assuming there was an enemy - come to them.
In both cases you have not even come within bowshot of the Iliad, and if you are being led to think that you have, somebody is lying to you.
Our goal was so close; the city walls were a little bit more than a bowshot away.
Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, "Do not let me see the boy die."
Thinning their centre to cover the longer Persian line, but leaving their wings strong, the Greeks advanced, probably breaking into a jogtrot when they came within bowshot.
Definition of bowshot in US English:
bowshot
nounˈboʊˌʃɑtˈbōˌSHät
The distance to which a bow can send an arrow.
箭的射程,一箭之遥
the two armies camped almost within bowshot of each other
两支军队的营地相距仅一箭之遥。
Example sentencesExamples
Our goal was so close; the city walls were a little bit more than a bowshot away.
The dangerous stretch of forest was already well within bowshot or he would have opted for stopping where they were to reorder their own ranks and let the enemy - assuming there was an enemy - come to them.
Thinning their centre to cover the longer Persian line, but leaving their wings strong, the Greeks advanced, probably breaking into a jogtrot when they came within bowshot.
Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, "Do not let me see the boy die."
In both cases you have not even come within bowshot of the Iliad, and if you are being led to think that you have, somebody is lying to you.