distant

• They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past .
  他们认为地下的石油在远古时期就开始形成。
• Those beautiful, distant blue eyes were very intelligent and very hard to fool .
  那双美丽的、深邃的眼睛是非常聪明的，不易被人愚弄的。
• The newly plowed fields were black banners fallen on the distant slope .
  刚刚犁过的一块块耕地，犹如覆盖在远处斜坡上的一面面黑色大旗。
• The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead still .
  远处一只猫头鹰唬唬的叫声是唯一打搅那死一般的沉寂的声音。
• Whatever was happening in his distant body now, he could not change or stop .
  此刻，不论在他那遥远的躯体里发生了什么，他都无法改变或阻止它。
• The time was not far distant when this aspect of the progressive movement would come to fruition .
  进步运动的这一方面获得成功的时日已经不远。
• She had always felt distant from her own people, even as she lived among them .
  对她自己的亲人她始终感到落落寡合即使她生活在他们中间时也不亲近。
• In that treeless waste an object could be seen at half a day's journey distant .
  在那片寸草不生的荒地上，隔开半天路程的距离，才能看得见一样东西。
• The most distant object for which an image can be formed on the retina is then nearer than infinity .
  这时，能成象在视网膜上的最远物体比无穷远近。