邓小平的权利:remote far与distant区别

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far,distant,remote这组形容词的一般含义是“遥远的”。
far在‘Hor far…?’这样的问句中,或在类似对此问句的答句中,通常指短距离的“远”,否则总为“遥远的”这一含义。由于far是个普通词,所以使用范围较广,含义也较复杂(如:它可以表示相对于观察者的“另一边”),在不同的词组中,其含义也有差异。如:
At the far end of the meadow two slates in the wall, which at this point replaced the hedge, indicated a stile.
在草地的另一端,树篱围墙中有两块石板和树篱相连。看得出这是供人越过树篱的阶梯。
"You'll have to get off here," the conductor said,"This is as far as we go."
“你得在这儿下车了,”售票员说,“我们的车就开到这里为止了”。
distant和remote虽然都可以表示“遥远的”,但是remote 强调“偏僻”,而distant强调“两物相距的间隔”。此外,distant也并不总是表示遥远。如:“应当把书保持在离开眼睛大约六英寸处。”The book should be held about six inches distant from the eyes. 此句中的
The ability to do this will be necessary in future flights to distant planets.
将来飞往遥远的行星时,需要这样的能力。
But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
但是,试图再现远古情景的史学家,总面临着艰难的任务。
Visits to really remote villages are seldom enjoyable——as my wife and I discovered during a tour through the Balkans.
访问真正偏僻的村庄,很少是令人愉快的——这一点我和妻子在巴尔干地区游览时,有所发现。

remote 除了有遥远之外还有偏僻的意思,distant就是遥远的,两者都可做定语或者表语,而far的意思一样,但只能用做表语,不能用做定语,如一个遥远的地方 不能说 a far place,只能说it is far.