Lena Horne once said she felt a need to act distant on stage to protect herself.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

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

There's also a distant psychological relationship with it because we just aren't as concerned as people used to be about where it came from.

心理上的感觉也变得疏远,我们不像以前的人那样,关心食品源自何方

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And he pointed to a distant corner. I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople, and around the counters and tables filled with goods, to the far room to the left.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

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

In other words, they probably bear a distant relation to the semiotics of the stoplight, and that's probably why red was chosen for ambulances and police cars: because they put into your head the notion of "stop."

这很可能是源自于,红灯在一些语义中表示停止的意思，它被应用在了救护车和警车上：,因为他们带有警告的意味“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

"I am not against him talking to Chavez,". "But I think he ought to talk to Chavez in a cold and distant way because Chavez openly, constantly attacks the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

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。

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In his latest video, Doku Umarov repeats a theme woven into his previous warnings that violence in the Caucasus is not something distant and televised, but something he intends to bring into the streets and homes of Russians throughout the country.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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So it's some way of interfacing activity in your brain with the outside world, and we'll talk about this as we go along, but there's lots of reasons to think that we're going to have this in the not too distant future.

它是一种将大脑,和外部世界连接起来的办法,当我们遇到这个问题的时候再细讲,但我们非常有理由相信,不远的将来我们就能应用这些技术

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He doesn't seem to be feeling distant and alone.

并不像是感觉疏远孤单。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One should do," he says, "what archers do when attempting to reach a distant target, namely, aim your bow high, knowing that the force of gravity " will bring the arrow down."

他说：，“一个人应该做的是，模仿伟人所为,当试图达致遥不可及的目标时，意即将目标设高，明了重力会将,射出的箭吸回地面“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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