«DISTANT»的英语 引用
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My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, ...
The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what’s still to come will tear them apart...
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Distant Dreams (Ribbons of Steel Book #1)
The year is 1835 and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor...the railroad.
Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson,
2009
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Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics
The book concludes with a discussion of a 'crisis of pity' in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism. A possible way out of this crisis is suggested which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering.
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Distant View of a Minaret: And Other Stories
Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.
Alifa Rifaat, Denys Johnson-Davies,
1987
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Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic: A Novel of the Titanic
A Novel of the Titanic Suzanne Weyn. demonium. The police and ambulances
arrived. I told my assistants to say nothing. We told the police it must have been
an earthquake. That's all they ever knew about it.” Nikola Tesla was born in 1856
in ...
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, ...
Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews,
2004
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Distant Hours: A Novel
In this enthralling romantic thriller, Morton pays homage to the classics of gothic fiction, spinning a rich and intricate web of mystery, suspense, and lost love.
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Distant Land of My Father
With the intensity and appeal of When We Were Orphans, also set in Shanghai at the same time, The Distant Land of My Father tells a moving and unforgettable story about a most unusual father-daughter relationship.
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Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the ...
Challenging nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline, this is the first study to document the actual railway construction rather than the rhetoric surrounding it.
Jonathan S. McMurray,
2001
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Smog days a distant memory
There were no smog days declared by the City's Board of Health Committee in 2014, nor have there been any this year. Pictured is the lone ... «Hamilton Spectator, 七月 15»
Explore a distant alien planet in Exiles, free version now available
It's just the free version so don't expect you'll experience the full game set in a distant planet that's been driven to desolation and isolation. «Android Community, 七月 15»
Kundapur: Lasting solution to sea erosion still a distant dream
Kundapur, Jul 8: Rainy season and natural calamities associated with it have returned to haunt the people, particularly those who live near the ... «Daijiworld.com, 七月 15»
Our Patna, their Patna: Story of 2 distant cousins
Our Patna, their Patna: Story of 2 distant cousins. Banjotkaur.Bhatia@timesgroup.com. Patna (Bihar): Few in Bihar's Patna or anywhere else in ... «Times of India, 七月 15»
Murray: Federer thrashing a distant memory
BRITAIN'S Andy Murray insists the scars incurred from his humiliating defeat to world No2 Roger Federer during their last encounter have long ... «City A.M., 七月 15»
Wrestling trials: Narsingh Yadav wins but Rio still distant
IT WAS touted as the duel of the year. The clash was supposed to feature two of India's best grapplers in the 74kg category — double Olympic ... «The Indian Express, 七月 15»
Promised bridge a distant dream as quiet flows Baitarani
KENDRAPADA: The construction work of a 500-metre bridge over the Baitarani in Jajpur district is yet to be completed even four years after the ... «Times of India, 七月 15»
When thunder becomes 'like distant artillery'
"It was like distant artillery … or an air strike," he said later of that benign bit of thunder. "That's the stuff we live with all the time." lRelated ... «Chicago Tribune, 七月 15»
Theater Shooting Trial Shows James Holmes' Distant Relationship …
FILE - In this June 4, 2013, file photo, Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes appears in court in Centennial, Colo. The person closest ... «Huffington Post, 七月 15»
Crisis Deepens in FACT as Aid Package Remains a Distant Dream
KOCHI: Demand for disbursal of the Rs 991-crore financial aid package for Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), which has ... «The New Indian Express, 七月 15»