Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Just ahead over the rolling wheat fields all golden beneath the distant snows of Estes I'd be seeing old Denver at last.

终于在一片翻滚着的金黄色麦浪后面,在隐约可见的白色的埃斯特斯山下，丹佛城出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A famous professor at a distant university was said to have begun his lectures on the Republic by saying, " "Now we will consider Plato, the fascist."

一位在远地的著名教授据说曾,以下列句子,开始讲授《理想国》,“我们现在要来谈柏拉图，法西斯份子“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You're looking at it and feels like someone's over your shoulder talking in your ear, as opposed to someone at the blackboard, that's distant from you."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

And there's,as far as I can see, no reason at all to believe that he was feeling lonely, feeling distant,feeling alienated from the people who were keeping him company.

在我看来，完全没有理由觉得他感到孤独，感到距离感，感到被陪伴着他的人们疏远。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选