Conciliation has a distant source in China, acting as an important means of adjusting social relationship, resolving disputes and stabilizing social orders.

调解，作为调整人际关系、缓和矛盾纠纷、稳定社会秩序的一种方式，在我国可谓源远流长。

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Britain might, however, seek a more distant relationship. It could steer clear of the EEA but join EFTA, which it helped to set up in 1960.

因此，英国可能会寻求一种与欧洲更疏远的关系，她可能会绕开EEA而加入自己在1960年帮助建立的EFTA。

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Of course if you are willing to be in a distant relationship you are able to commit to one another.

当然如果你愿意处在远距离关系中，你就能够相互承诺。

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And it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.

这意味着曾自给自足的洛杉矶人,所吃的食物要从远处运来,所以人与食品间的关系被拉远了

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In a way that Americans only rarely understand, a more distant relationship makes sense in the context of contemporary British culture and politics.

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Our town police are well paid and polite and they are not very different from the rest of us in their distant relationship to crime.

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Your distant social relationship is maintained, but neither of you have to keep the other in your 150 cognitive limit.

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