He is a distant relation of mine.

他是我的远房亲戚。

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I have a distant relation in America.

我在美国有个远亲。

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She was a distant relation of my wife.

她是我老婆的远房亲戚。

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In other words, they probably bear a distant relation to the semiotics of the stoplight, and that's probably why red was chosen for ambulances and police cars: because they put into your head the notion of "stop."

这很可能是源自于,红灯在一些语义中表示停止的意思，它被应用在了救护车和警车上：,因为他们带有警告的意味“

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They are Contemporary Man, a distant relation to Renaissance Man: living by their wits and off their imaginations.

BBC: A modern day Renaissance Man

"This paper indicates that lakes may well be connected at irregular time intervals and that even an apparently isolated lake can breach and transfer water hundreds of kilometres to other distant lakes so the contamination potential in relation to small lakes is greater than we'd previously thought, " he said.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret rivers found in Antarctic