But over thirty years on, this goal is as distant as ever.

但至今已有30余年过去，距离当初的目标还是很远。

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Our brain's visual centers aren't equipped to accurately judge the distance of objects, especially those as distant as the moon.

人类大脑的视觉中心无法准确的判断物体的距离，尤其是对于诸如月球之类较为遥远的距离。

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Eris is about 9 billion miles (15 billion kilometers) from the sun at its farthest orbital point, making it about twice as distant as Pluto.

从最远的轨道点开始测量的话，厄里斯距离太阳大约90亿英里，几乎比冥王星远了一倍。

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It is really 10 telescopes that are as distant from one another as Hawaii and the United States Virgin Islands.

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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

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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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Few sides at this point would logically appreciate a widening of the conflict -- but hopes of resolving it seem as distant as ever.

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Something tells me the days of customer service treated as a corporate backwater will be as distant as those customers who actually used to write complaint letters, private letters that had no audience, to corporate headquarters.

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Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.

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