Citing a Chinese saying that a close neighbor is better than a distant relative, he said Mongolia is one of China's important neighbors and the two countries share a borderline of 4,600 kilometers.

他说，中国有一句俗话：远亲不如近邻。 蒙古国是中国的重要邻国，两国有4600多公里的共同边界。

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By contrast, two more distant powers, Russia and the United States, enjoyed a relative invulnerability.

与上述国家比较起来，两个遥远的大国，俄国和美国，相对说来固若金汤。

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Hemingway, a distant relative of the author Ernest, and who took two-and-a-half years out of the sport to pursue other interests, failed three times at 2.36, as did Baba.

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So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.

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