From the word’s history
From Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.
經古法文 distant 來自拉丁文 distāns。
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.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
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