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。

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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。

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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。

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"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."

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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

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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。

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He apologized for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

They tend to view him as someone at home in academic and political debate but distant from the business world.

WSJ: Change in Tone Depends on Obama

Using Keck I, a telescope on a mountain-top in Hawaii, the physicists analysed light emanating from very bright but distant galaxies called quasars.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics