Well-being sometimes distant, sometimes close at hand.

幸福有时遥远，有时近在咫尺。

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Farsightedness is the opposite, in a way: A shorter-than-average eyeball or too-flat cornea focuses light behind the retina instead of on it, making near vision and sometimes distant vision blurry.

远视在某种程度上则相反，是较正常短些的眼球前后径或者太平坦的角膜使光线聚焦于视网膜后而不是之上，这导致近景视觉模糊和有时的远景视觉模糊;

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But, sometimes, an old color photo brings a distant image to life and produces something kind of special.

不过，有时一张彩色照片可以使一幅久远的画面焕发生机，产生某种特殊的东西。

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"But,unfortunately, many have been driven from those lands and they have been dispersed throughout the country, sometimes in distant urban centers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

And all this politics stuff sometimes seems very distant to them.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at Campaign Event -- 40/40 Club

Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need.

WHITEHOUSE: National Prayer Breakfast

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).

FORBES: Alcohol, Obesity and Smoking Do Not Cost Health Care Systems Money