An old collector, one day, found a bed that came from a distant land in the East.

有一天，一位老收藏家发现了一张来自遥远东方的床。

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Finally the young man revealed that he was a paroled convict returning from a distant prison.

最后这个年轻人吐露了实情，他是个获得假释的犯人，刚刚从服刑监狱回来。

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Guards ordered them to build a wall out of lava rocks brought from a distant crater-a wall that served no purpose.

监狱守卫命令他们从很远的火山口去搬运火山石，然后回来建造一堵毫无用处的墙。

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Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

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So that's how distant I am from all of this but let's listen to a little of this.

这就是我和流行音乐的距离,但我们还是来听一下

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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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Michael Dell even returned from a distant role as chairman to resume operating responsibility for the company.

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Decisions that will affect markets, food supplies, energy production, and lives around the world from a distant corner of China.

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But Florida Gulf Coast didn't, in fact, come from a distant galaxy.

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