They are a good way to cut air travel and carbon emissions, particularly where, as in China, they connect dense but distant population clusters.
高铁是减少航空旅行和碳排放的好途径，尤其在象中国这样的地方，它们连接了人口密集但偏远的地区。
But in recent years people have set their sights on the more distant past, when Europe's forests were filled with elephants, rhinoceroses and big cats.
但近年来，人们把目光投向了更遥远的过去，那时候欧洲森林里到处都是大象、犀牛以及大型猫科动物。
An earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, was not strong enough to be recorded on distant instruments, but it completely destroyed the city.
摩洛哥阿加迪尔发生的地震，虽然不足以使遥远的仪器记录下来，但却彻底摧毁了这座城市。
He tried it; but in the darkness the distant echoes sounded so hideously that he tried it no more.
他试过，但是在黑暗中，远处的回声听起来是那么可怕，所以他不再去试它了。
Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century.
精灵、小妖精和侏儒似乎是远古时代永恒的产物，但小妖精诞生于20世纪。
Whales are descended not from hippos but from that distant wolf-like creatures.
鲸鱼不是河马的后代，而是来自古老的类似狼的生物。
Everyone knew that waves were generated by distant storms, but no one knew where they came from or why, and no one had tried to make surf forecasts.
每个人都知道，海浪是由于远处的风暴所造成的，但没有人知道他们来自何方及原因，同样也没有人试图预测海浪。
We all learn to live only when we no longer have anything to expect, because we do not live in the living present but in a vague and distant future.
唯有当我们不再有任何期盼之时，我们才完全开始学习生活，因为我们不在活在当下的生活之中，而是在一种茫昧与远在的未来。
It is also conceivable that they could be points of intervention by modifications in environmental factors or eventually in pharmaceutical products; but this is a distant prospect.
它们在环境问题上和最终的医药产品上可以成为修饰的介入点，这也是可想而知的。但是这仅仅是一个遥远的前景。
Of course this — these are morality stories written for Jews who were living under Greek domination encouraging them not to worship Greek gods but its past in the distant past.
当然，这些都是犹太人的道德教化故事，他们生活在希腊人统治之下，这些故事鼓励他们，不要崇拜希腊神，但都是非常久远的事了。
But, sometimes, an old color photo brings a distant image to life and produces something kind of special.
不过，有时一张彩色照片可以使一幅久远的画面焕发生机，产生某种特殊的东西。
But Mars is much closer than the distant stars and an extended source of light.
不过火星比遥远的恒星距离我们更近，光源也更为扩展。
It isn't distant, but in Italians' faces and in power in Rome.
它不再遥远，而就摆在意大利人面前，就在罗马施展权力。
Those particles essentially constitute the background that scientists will have to filter out to find distant astrophysical neutrino sources, but they are providing some surprises in their own right.
这些粒子实质上构成了科学家们需要剔除的信号背景，这样才能找到遥远的宇宙中微子源。但它们为它们的权力为人们提供了一些惊喜。
Now the galaxy is full of gas and dust, which could hide a distant supernova optically, but the remnant would still produce detectable radio waves and X-rays.
现在，星系充满了气体和灰尘，掩盖了遥远的超新星的可见性，但是(它的)残骸依然放射出可检测的无线电波和X射线。
But yesterday, a murky yellow haze swallowed many of the distant tower blocks.
但是昨天，远一点的高楼大厦大多消失在一片黄黄的霾雾之中。
Another study showed that cut flowers sold in Britain that had been grown in distant but sunny Kenya had a smaller carbon footprint than those grown in heated greenhouses in Holland.
另一项研究表明，在英国减少销售荷兰温室中种植的花卉，增加销售在遥远的阳光充足的肯尼亚种植的花卉具有更少的碳足迹。
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.
总有一天我们将看到和平不仅仅是我们寻找的一个遥远的目标，而是我们达成目标的一种方式。
Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles.
他忽然听到头上有雷鸣样的响声，距离很远，但连续不断，这原来是车辆的滚动声。
It is a distant goal, but he has already taken several steps in the right direction.
这是一个遥远的目标，不过他已经往正确的方向迈出好几步了。
But these seem distant prospects, from a charpoy outside Sarju's mud hut, as night falls on Shahabpur.
但是这些似乎还是很遥远的前景，从萨尔朱土屋外的轻便床上看，正是夜幕降临在沙哈普尔。
Mark Zumberge: So we can study not only very large earthquakes nearby, but the most distant quiet earthquakes as well.
马克•藏伯格：因此我们不仅可以研究所在地附近的大地震，还可以监测到遥远地方发生的微弱地震。
A solar-powered airliner is still a distant dream, but IATA knows that pushing the boundaries of technology will be necessary to help clean up air travel.
太阳能飞机依然是遥远的梦想，但IATA知道，推进科技界线必能协助清洁航空旅行。
But her description of the accident is distant and clinical; a factual recitation of what she has been told happened.
她对于往事的描述显得程式化，且因为时间久远而不甚清晰，关于事实的陈述更像是被告知，而非曾经亲历过一样。
Another studyshowed that cut flowers sold in Britain that had been grown in distant but sunny Kenya had a smaller carbon footprint than those grown in heated greenhouses in Holland.
另一项研究表明，在英国售卖的切枝花里头，来自遥远的阳光充沛的肯尼亚的花碳足迹要比来自荷兰温室的要低。
But this happy (for him) outcome seems a distant prospect.
但是这个(对他而言)快乐的结果似乎是一个遥远的前景。
But this happy (for him) outcome seems a distant prospect.
但是这个(对他而言)快乐的结果似乎是一个遥远的前景。
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