No business of anybody's. Had he inherited it? Yes, he had. From whom? Distant relation. Very distant? Rather. Ever been in prison?英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
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Arial perspective has a great influence on the determination of these phenomena, particularly such as occur in the open and at great distances. The influence is to be recognized through the various appearances of distant objects, the various colors of distant mountains, the size of the moon on the horizon, and the difficulties which arial perspective offers painters. Many a picture owes
On the 9th, being to the eastward of King William's Island, we plied all day between the main and other islands, having easterly winds and fair weather till seven the next morning; then we had very hard rain till eight, and saw many shoals of fish. We lay becalmed off a pretty deep bay on New Guinea, about twelve or fourteen leagues wide, and seven or eight leagues deep, having low land near its bottom, but high land without. The easternmost part of New Guinea seen bore east-by-south, distant twelve leagues; Cape Mabo west- south-west half-south, distant seven leagues.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
"A young king just and kind, People of loyal mind: Such brave men soon agree, -- To distant lands they sail with glee. To the distant Holy Land A brave and pious band, Magnificent and gay, In sixty long-ships glide away."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
There is a lady on those distant shores (for she never died of Roman fever) who I may venture to believe is not unfriendly--Miss Annie P. Miller--and there is a daughter of Mr. Silas Lapham whom one cannot readily forget, and there is a beery journalist in a "Modern Instance," an acquaintance, a distant professional acquaintance, not a friend. The rest of the fictitious white population of the States are shadowy to myself; I have often followed their fortunes with interest, but the details slip my aging memory, which recalls Topsy and Uncle Remus.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
Meantime I heard the storm, which had been brewing during the evening, begin to descend with a vengeance; sounds as of distant- thunder (the noise of the more distant waves, doubtless, on the shore) mingled with the roaring of the neighbouring torrent, and with the crashing, groaning, and even screaming of the trees in the glen whose boughs were tormented by the gale. Within the house, windows clattered, and doors clapped, and the walls, though sufficiently substantial for a building of the kind, seemed to me to totter in the tempest.英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
You're getting fottuto for something someone's cousin did to someone else's boss in a distant part of the state.美剧 · 《Billions》
The kid--the whole movie is him trying to understand his father, what made him great, what made him distant.美剧 · 《Billions》
You have done some good for me in the not too distant past.美剧 · 《Billions》
BoJack, the only reason you want Kelsey to like you is because she's cold and distant.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》