From the shore line, out a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里的区域是大陆架慢坡，从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

youdao

A peal of church bells rang out in the distance.

远处响起了一阵教堂的钟声。

《牛津词典》

When he squinted his eyes, he could just make out a house in the distance.

他瞇着眼睛，只能隐约看见远处有一所房子。

《牛津词典》

And orbiting around this is a lone electron out at some distance r.

有一个单电子,在环原子核的轨道上运行。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That was Cartesian space. When I plot r as a distance out from the nucleus that is sort of our simple-minded planetary model. Now let's look at energy.

笛卡尔坐标系，当我用r表示,离原子核的距离时，那只是我们头脑中简单的,类似行星的模型，现在我们看一下能量问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The simulation detailed in the new paper is based on a sphere centered on our sun that stretches through the disk of our Milky Way galaxy out to a distance of almost a 1000 light years.

FORBES: Free-Floating, Nearby Black Holes Detectable By Decade's End, New Study Reports

The South Belfast MLA described an attack on a man who had been hit on the head with a hammer and whose car was found burned out a short distance away, and said people were fearful of letting their daughters drive cars in Belfast at the weekend.

BBC: Car-jacking crimes

The movie's coda, though, is memorable -- the camera studying Ms. Bening's face as Julia, alone in a restaurant after the show, savors what she's just done, then looks out to a middle distance, as if to her immediate future, with an equanimity that slowly blooms into fondness.

WSJ: All About Annette