词汇 | afar |
释义 | afar adverb uk /əˈfɑːr/ us /əˈfɑːr/ from or at a great distance: 从远处;遥远地;在远处 from afar People came from afar to see the show.人们从很远的地方赶来观看表演。 humorousI've never actually spoken to him - I've just admired him from afar.我从来没有跟他说过话——我只是“敬而远之”。 Distant in space and time (in) the middle of nowhereidiom afield all/the four corners of the world/earthidiom anywhere as far as the eye can/could seeidiom distance eye from afar further furthermost light years awayidiom lonely middle remote remotely remoteness the back of beyondidiom ultra ultra-distant wide Examples of afarafar Vision is a mode of de-distancing that brings things that are not at hand nearer from their remoteness, and renders beings accessible even from afar. But as love from afar, it remains a source of jouissance, even without the immediate presence of its object. It works best when the investigator is able to follow policy developments from afar through newspapers, journals and informal contacts. Rather than an international project being completed in toto from afar, a portion of the project is undertaken locally. Each surface is therefore overall negatively charged, which is the way they appear from afar. They need no longer continue to serve the interests of great powers from afar. When you look at these hangars from afar, you ask what these half-buried tunnels can be. It is afar, on the roads that it usually follows, where it matters to block its passage. The subject matter of the poem is distant love, love from afar. Here, too, exchange was facilitated by versatile media that measured and stored wealth, and permitted its negotiation from afar. However, this can be reduced to under 100 polygons which is sufficient when viewed from afar. The implications of isolation by distance are that immigrants are more likely to come from nearby regions than from afar. Affection or commitment were signalled from afar by the sending of letters and presents. Viewed from afar, this post-1991 shattering of southern military unity appears completely counter-productive and hence, perplexing. This imperative creates identities in local places and inspires translocalization, others watching and listening from afar, to enact their identities elsewhere. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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