These lines,or circles,are parallel -- meaning that they are equally distant from each other at any point around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So that's how distant I am from all of this but let's listen to a little of this.

这就是我和流行音乐的距离,但我们还是来听一下

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And yet,for all that,feels removed,distant, alienated from the others,feels lonely even in the crowd.

但还是感觉非常疏远，有距离感，感到和他人疏远，在人群中都觉得孤单。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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 it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.

这意味着曾自给自足的洛杉矶人,所吃的食物要从远处运来,所以人与食品间的关系被拉远了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

From nineteen twenty-two on, Edwin Hubble began examining more and more distant objects.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

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

"But,unfortunately, many have been driven from those lands and they have been dispersed throughout the country, sometimes in distant urban centers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

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