A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
遥远
Distant
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
对于年轻人来说，死亡是一个遥远的谣言。
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
与神职人员既不要亲密也不要疏远。
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
我父亲很冷漠，很奇怪，也很疏远。
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
远敌总比近处的好。
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
一个人可以理解宇宙，但永远无法理解自我;自我比任何星星都遥远。
The past feels distant even when it's near and the future seems assured even though it isn't.
过去即使近在眼前也会让人觉得遥远，而未来即使并不遥远也会让人觉得确定。
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
也许当其他星球上遥远的人们接收到我们的某些波长时，他们听到的只是一声持续不断的尖叫。
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
我真的很想和生活有更密切的接触。我想我有点太疏远了。我喜欢把自己放在外面。
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
希望在不远的将来，我们能够理解像星星这样简单的东西，这是明智的判断。
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
感谢上帝赐予我们书籍;他们是远方和死者的声音，使我们成为过去时代精神生活的继承人。
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
我想在神话和遥远的未来之间摇摆，昨天，今天，明天。感觉有点像预言，有点像讲故事。
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时，真理就会受到相当大的歪曲，而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单，假设变成教条，相对变成绝对。