Distant
['dɪst(ə)nt] or ['dɪstənt]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
校對:帕蒂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Remote, far, not near.[2]. Reserved, shy, cold, cool, coy, not cordial.[3]. Slight, faint, indirect, indistinct, obscure.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Far, remote, aloof, apart, asunder, separate, indistinct, obscure
ANT:Close, near, adjacent, contiguous
卡洛整理
解釋/意思:
adj. at a certain distance: remote in time place or connection: not obvious: indistinct: reserved in manner.—adv. Dis′tantly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 科學通論.
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The distant smoke very black and heavy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I will not dwell on a scene, which even at this distant period I cannot remember without shuddering. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- His marriage must still be a distant good;at least, I am afraid it cannot take place very soon. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- These shores are yet distant; they look so blue, soft, gentle, we long to reach them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The window, placed at the side of the oblong, looked to the blank wall of a similar projection, not above ten feet distant. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The professor declares that he heard the distant cry, but that he knows nothing more. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I also had the pleasure of his genial company at the boarding-house about a mile distant, but at the sacrifice of some apparatus. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It may be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, nothing turns me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- From every narrow lane opening out on Marlborough Street came up a low distant roar, as of myriads of fierce indignant voices. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- What assurance that I might not as well be hurtled to some far-distant star of another solar system, as to Mars? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The more distant the fountain, the weaker the flow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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