Proximity refers to the physical distance between speakers.

接近性是指说话人之间的物理距离。

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Well, you have psychological distance or physical distance.

既可以利用心理距离，也可以利用物理距离。

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Every dollar comes at the expense of his physical distance.

每一美元都以他的遥不可及为代价。

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And the smaller the physical distance between friends, the larger the effect they had on each other's happiness.

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Well, you have psychological distance or physical distance.

既可以利用心理距离，也可以利用物理距离。

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Well it has to do with our distance from food, our psychological and physical distance from food, and the fact that we don't appreciate it as much as we do because it's everywhere all the time and we've been trained to eat outside of the normal meal times.

我想这和我们与食物之间的距离有关,包括与食物之间的心理距离和身体上距离,事实上,我们没有给予食物足够的重视,因为食物随手可得,无处不在,而且我们都习惯在非用餐时间吃东西

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Not physical distance but that between the roles, processes and people that an employee commonly interacts with.

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As a Japanese company, Toyota has historically been all the more motivated to overcome the problems of language and physical distance.

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Gone is the physical distance that reduces the tension surrounding nasty attacks in other online forums, for instance in multiplayer games, chat rooms, or in the reader comments sections below news articles or blog posts.

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