And the smaller the physical distance between friends, the larger the effect they had on each other's happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

These released particles can now go on and infect neighboring cells, they can travel in the bloodstream to infect cells at a distance and the virus spreads throughout a multicellular host.

这些释放出的病毒颗粒,可以继续感染邻近的细胞,它们可以随着血流去感染远距离的细胞,于是病毒可以在多细胞宿主体内全面扩散

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I'm a Yale college student, for the purposes of this thought experiment and I live in Pierson because I need to walk a great distance to Chapel Street, to the Starbuck's on Chapel Street.

我是一个耶鲁的学生，出于实验的需要,我住在皮尔逊校园里,我需要走很远的路去新教堂街，去新教堂街上的星巴克店。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I do remember walking on the college grounds and watching sail boats in the distance on the blue waters of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

But if we could statistically control for every other variable, all I'd need to do is measure the distance from your door to everybody else's door on campus and I could chart out who's going to fall in love with whom on the Yale campus.

如果我们能精确地控制其他可变因素，那么只需要测测距离,你宿舍门到其他宿舍门的距离,我就能够计算出,校园里谁爱上了谁。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

On the program, Griffin tried to distance himself from that stance.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23