The wail of the bagpipe could be heard in the distance.

老远就可听到风笛悠长的奏鸣声。

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In the distance, the dot of a boat appeared on the horizon.

远处小黑点般的一条小船出现在地平线上。

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We could see the lights of the ship winking in the distance.

我们看见船在远方忽明忽暗地闪着灯光。

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Shirley Griffith has more. From a distance, Big Bambu looks like a huge nest in the shape of a wave.

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It's possible that in this general drama of overvaluation that Milton's working to distance himself from his own youthful interest in the virtues of virginity.

这是可能的，在被高估的戏剧中,弥尔顿的作品,让他无法投入到自己年轻时对贞操的兴趣中去。

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It varies with the square of distance so it goes - in order to go twice as far it takes four times as long.

速度是与距离的平方正相关的--,如果要扩散两倍的距离要多花四倍的时间

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Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.

CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

Haile Gebrselassie poses for photographs afterwards with the media, who have abandoned their usual cynicism in favour of unadulterated fawning in front of the greatest distance runner of all time.

BBC: Me, my race and Haile

San Francisco decided to make another run with the same core group of players who went the distance in the first two rounds of the playoffs last season, then swept Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers to win their second championship in three years.

WSJ: MLB 2013: Challengers gear up to take down Giants