心裡的距離
把那段構不到的空隙從地面搬進人與人之間、或搬進一個人的注意力裡：人明明就坐在你旁邊，但你就是靠不過去。
cold and aloof · adjective · B2
Not friendly or warm; keeping your feelings away from other people.
冷淡的
核心畫面
One way to hold it: you and the other thing stand at the two ends of a long gap. The mountain on the , a year that has not arrived yet — it is there, you can see it or name it, but there is a lot of empty space in between and you cannot reach it from where you are.
可以想成你和另一樣東西各站在一段長長的空隙的兩頭。地平線上的那座山、還沒到的那一年——它就在那裡，看得見、講得出來，…更多收起
可以想成你和另一樣東西各站在一段長長的空隙的兩頭。地平線上的那座山、還沒到的那一年——它就在那裡，看得見、講得出來，但中間隔著很大一片空白，你從現在站的位置伸手構不到。distant 其他的意思，就像都是把這段「構不到的距離」搬到別的地方去：搬到心裡、搬到注意力上、搬到家族關係或相似程度上。From the picture
關係與相似度上的遠
把距離畫在一張圖上：家族樹上兩個人隔了好幾代，或兩件事情放在同一條線上卻離得很開。都是「中間隔了很多」的那個畫面。
distant relative · adjective · B2
Not closely related to you in your family.
遠房的
Also in this word
far away · adjective · B2
Very far away in space or time.
遙遠的
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
distantadj/ˈdɪstənt/
- 1
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- 2
Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
- Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
- 3
broadcastingmediatelevisionImported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).
- Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]
- Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.
distantnoun/ˈdɪstənt/
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。