Britain is an island, of course, and you are never far from the sea.

不用说，英国是一个岛国。在这里你总不会离海太远。

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You see, when I lived far away, you knew I was there, and I kept something for you, even though you had never seen a polar bear or an ice floe. Even though you are not adapted to my conditions.

你瞧，当我生活在远方时，你却知道我在那里，而且知道我为你保存了某些东西，即使你从未见过北极熊或冰川，即使你适应不了我的环境。

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Also, you can solve a problem in more than one way in PHP and the dangers of making painful mistakes that become difficult to fix later are never far away.

而且，在php中，解决问题的方法不止一种，比较容易犯那种惨痛的错误，这种错误过后难以订正。

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For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'

The questions on the energy question, which is never far from the economic part of the independence debate, are how you assess both risk and return, and how much appetite for risk - both downside and upside - Scottish voters will have when they vote in September next year.

BBC: Scottish independence: energy's alternating currents

The threat level, as far as we are aware, has slightly come down in the last 12 months, but you can never be certain.

CNN: London's Olympic security headache