His lectures always proceed from the close to the distant and from the elementary to the profound.

他讲课总是由近及远，由浅入深。

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Two years on and Catherine has become close friends with Edgar, growing more distant from Heathcliff.

两年过去了，凯瑟琳跟埃德加成了亲密的朋友，而与希斯·克里夫则越来越疏远。

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They can fill trucks for frequent shipment in markets close to production and ship larger quantities by air to more distant stores.

他们可以频繁的用货车将货品送到这些离生产地点很近的店铺，或者用飞机把更大批量的货品送到稍远的店铺。

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The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

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The upshot of these differences is that the columns in an autistic brain seem to be more connected than normal with their close neighbours, and less connected with their distant ones.

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