Although we live with a distance of thousands of miles between us, "Long distance separates no bosom friends, " as one of your Tang poets said.

虽然我们远隔万里，但贵国唐朝的一位诗人说得好，“海内存知己，天涯若比邻。”

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"The ability to collaborate is inversely proportional to the distance that separates you, " explains Edward Holmes, the energetic vice chancellor for health sciences at UCSD.

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We are, after all, talking about the sort of distance in time which separates us from the invention of agriculture.

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It separates out a group of people trying to work together for a single goal and creates distance when collaboration is sorely needed.

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