Whenever she had a problem she would call me long distant.

每当她遇到问题都会给我打长途电话。

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So in that long distant future, the Universe may be nothing more than an ultra-thin soup of electrons and low-energy photons bumping around an eternal nothingness.

因此在那么遥远的未来，宇宙也许只不过是极其稀薄的电子和低能量光子雾，围绕永恒的虚无起伏。

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It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space that they would return to an earth of the distant future.

当你移动得更快时，它的速度也会减慢，这意味着有一天宇航员可能会在太空中生存很长时间，以至于在遥远的将来他们才会回到地球。

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We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).

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The region has long felt distant from Cairo.

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Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.

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