Reason: we are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.

原因：人们尚且不能联系过去和现在的事情，除非两者都以成为历史。

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In China, the current stipulations still have some distance to the establishment of the Principle of Directness and Verbalism.

在我国，现有规定对直接言词原则的真正确立还差距很大。

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Some areas, because of their soil texture, topographical position, or distance from rivers or groundwater, have virtually no water available to plants, whereas others do.

有些地区由于土质、地形位置或与河流或地下水的距离，几乎没有水分能提供给植物，而另一些地区则有。

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They have some distance to go.

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Even the beach is not what it seems: the coral reefs stretch from the shore far out to sea, and although Egyptian laws protecting the reefs are regularly violated by developers who bulldoze their way through reefs, tourists may find they have to pick their way for some distance over the delicate sharp reefs, damaging both them and their feet, to find deep water.

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If someone comes around this bend in the road, one of us is going to have to do some fancy reversing for some distance.

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