Distant
['dɪst(ə)nt] or ['dɪstənt]
解释:
(adj.) located far away spatially; 'distant lands'; 'remote stars' .
(adj.) separate or apart in time; 'distant events'; 'the remote past or future' .
(adj.) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; 'distant villages'; 'the sound of distant traffic'; 'a distant sound'; 'a distant telephone call' .
(adj.) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; 'a distant cousin'; 'a remote relative'; 'a distant likeness'; 'considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics' .
校对:帕蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
(a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
(a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
(a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
(a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
整理:维维安
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Remote, far, not near.[2]. Reserved, shy, cold, cool, coy, not cordial.[3]. Slight, faint, indirect, indistinct, obscure.
卡米尔录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Far, remote, aloof, apart, asunder, separate, indistinct, obscure
ANT:Close, near, adjacent, contiguous
卡洛整理
解释:
adj. at a certain distance: remote in time place or connection: not obvious: indistinct: reserved in manner.—adv. Dis′tantly.
录入:索菲娅
例句:
- My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The distant smoke very black and heavy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I will not dwell on a scene, which even at this distant period I cannot remember without shuddering. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- His marriage must still be a distant good;at least, I am afraid it cannot take place very soon. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- These shores are yet distant; they look so blue, soft, gentle, we long to reach them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The window, placed at the side of the oblong, looked to the blank wall of a similar projection, not above ten feet distant. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The professor declares that he heard the distant cry, but that he knows nothing more. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- So we all did: Traddles evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr. Micawber and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I called her a distant relation; but I am well aware that I have in general been suspected of a much nearer connection with her. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- I also had the pleasure of his genial company at the boarding-house about a mile distant, but at the sacrifice of some apparatus. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She must be used to the consideration of his being in love with her, and then a return of affection might not be very distant. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It may be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, nothing turns me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- From every narrow lane opening out on Marlborough Street came up a low distant roar, as of myriads of fierce indignant voices. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- What assurance that I might not as well be hurtled to some far-distant star of another solar system, as to Mars? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They would never suspect that we would try for that distant waterway, I answered, and that is why I think that it is the best route for our escape. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The more distant the fountain, the weaker the flow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
录入:索菲娅