If you are long-sighted, your eyes handle far-away things better than near ones. A street sign across the road may look fine, but a book, a phone screen, or a menu in your hands is not clear — you may hold it farther away to read it.

If you are如果你是 long-sightedlong-sighted（遠視） your eyes你的眼睛 handle far-away things better than near ones看遠的東西會比看近的東西清楚。 A street sign across the road馬路對面的路牌 may look fine可能看得很清楚 but but a book, a phone screen, or a menu拿在手上的書、手機螢幕，或菜單 in your hands却 is not clear卻看不清楚 you may hold it farther away你可能得把它拿遠一點 to read it才看得清楚。

This is the usual British way of talking about that kind of eyesight. In American English, people more often say farsighted.

This is這是 the usual British way英式英文常見的說法 of talking about that kind of eyesight講這種視力。 In American English美式英文 people more often say比較常說 farsightedfarsighted。

Glasses or contact lenses can help.

Glasses or contact lenses眼鏡或隱形眼鏡 can help可以幫上忙。

In ordinary talk, older people who start needing reading glasses are often called long-sighted too, even though doctors sometimes split that from the condition a person is born with. The tidy opposite for eyes is short-sighted in British English and nearsighted in American English: those people see near things well and far things poorly.

In ordinary talk在日常說法裡 older people開始需要老花眼鏡的年長者 who start needing reading glasses也 are often called也常被叫做 long-sightedlong-sighted too even though雖然 doctors sometimes split醫生有時候會分開來看 that from the condition a person is born with這個跟天生就有的狀況。 The tidy opposite for eyes眼睛方面正好相反的說法 is short-sighted英式英文是 short-sighted in British English and nearsighted美式英文是 nearsighted in American English : those people這種人 see near things well看近的東西清楚 and far things poorly看遠的東西反而不清楚。

This entry is about the eyes. English also lets far-sighted mean 'good at thinking about the future,' and some people stretch long-sighted that way as well — but here the word is the seeing word.

This entry這個條目講的 is about the eyes是眼睛。 English also lets英文也可以用 far-sightedfar-sighted mean表示 'good at thinking about the future,'「對未來有遠見」 and some people stretch有些人也會把 long-sightedlong-sighted that way用在這個意思上 as well — but here here但這裡 the word is這個字講的 the seeing word是視力這個意思。