Ironically, one reason suggested by the agency is that human relations must have grown more distant or detached in this age of the Internet.

具有讽刺意味的是，警察局提出的理由之一是互联网时代的到来使得人际关系更加疏远和孤立。

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As the week goes on, it all becomes clearer as if you're able to see your life from a distant or remote location... (like looking at it from the perspective of a spectator)...

随着本周的继续，一切变得明朗化，你就像从远处看自己的人生一般(就像从观众的角度看你的人生)。

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To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets.

对许多人来说，技术意味着计算机、手持设备或者是飞往遥远星球的交通工具。

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These lines,or circles,are parallel -- meaning that they are equally distant from each other at any point around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

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It is not because cyberspace it is distant or foreign, but because it is all around us and we are part of it.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Social technologies make it easy for people to learn about the strengths and foibles of the most distant or obscure supply chain or other operational truths of any business.

FORBES: Social Media Are More Interested in Your Supply Chain Than Your Marketing

The question of when to retire, and how to structure your finances when you do retire is one that will occupy most of us at some point in the future - distant or otherwise!

BBC: Fergus Muirhead