But the cattlemen believed they had proved that cattle could be walked long distances to the railroad.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The topic for this week is cell communication: how mechanisms that cells within a complex organism use to communicate with each other at short distances or long distances.

本周的主题是细胞通讯,即在一个复杂机体中的细胞,采用何种交流机制,在或长或短的距离中相互联系

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That creates all sorts of social consequences that we'll talk about sustainability, with shipping water long distances, all the plastic involved, people's distrust of public water systems that's unfounded, and things like that are very interesting and have big public health consequences.

这就产生了很多社会问题,比如我们将要谈到的饮水污染问题,饮用水在长途运输的过程中,会受到各种塑料污染,还有人们对公用自来水系统,毫无理由地不信任,类似这些现象都很有趣,而且会导致重大的公共健康后果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Trains had special container cars with ice to keep meat, milk and other goods cold for long distances on their way to market.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The device made it possible to strengthen radio signals and to send them over long distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But,the best idea probably is that the name comes from the sound that troops make when ordered to march long distances carrying heavy equipment.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Some small farmers have to travel long distances to have their animals killed and processed.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Mister Kao discovered how to transmit,or send,light signals over long distances through optical glass fibers.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

Mall officials say four out of ten people who visit have traveled long distances.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

He lifted weights, ran long distances, and learned how to be a boxer.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Scheduling decisions made well before the tournament have forced some teams to travel long distances and play on short rest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The $10-billion U.S.missile defense program involves a combination of systems designed to detect and intercept missiles coming from short,medium and long distances.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

There are few neighbors and the distances to the water well,to the clinic, to the school are long.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

And just like golf clubs, they are specialized, for long,short and midrange distances.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03