It does mean you should be realistic about how far into the future you can think — not very far at all.

这只是表示您在考虑将来时应该现实一些，根本不需要考虑太远。

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Where then, did our nearest neighbor in space come from, and what will the future bring? To answer these questions we must go very far back into time.

那么，我们这个最近的邻居来自何方，未来又将怎样？为了回答这些问题，我们必须回到遥远的过去。

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Your future and your goals sometimes feel very far away.

有时，你感觉未来、目标是那么可望而不可即。

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Economists worry about the appropriate discount rate, if any, to apply when assessing the seriousness of low-probability far-future catastrophes of very large scale.

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So the answer to many of our future problems and technologies may very well be there but where people are looking at things in a far too complex way.

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As a consequence, it should not be far-fetched to expect that in the near future mobile ads will become at the center of a very large and profitable social enterprise for Facebook.

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