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N-VAR
距離;間距
The distance between two points or places is the amount of space between them.
例句
...the distance between the island and the nearby shore...
該島和附近陸地之間的距離
Everything is within walking distance...
不管什么地方，都是走幾步就到了。
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N-UNCOUNT
遙遠(yuǎn);間隔
When two things are very far apart, you talk about the distance between them.
例句
The distance wouldn't be a problem.
距離不成問題。
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ADJ
遠(yuǎn)程的;函授的
Distance learning or distance education involves studying at home and sending your work to a college or university, rather than attending the college or university in person.
例句
I'm doing a theology degree by distance learning.
我正通過遠(yuǎn)程教育課程攻讀神學(xué)學(xué)位。
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N-UNCOUNT
（人際關(guān)系的）疏遠(yuǎn)；（事物間的）差距
When you want to emphasize that two people or things do not have a close relationship or are not the same, you can refer to the distance between them.
例句
...the emotional distance between them...
他們之間情感上的疏遠(yuǎn)
There was a vast distance between psychological clues and concrete proof...
心理提示和確鑿證據(jù)之間相差甚遠(yuǎn)。
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N-SING
遠(yuǎn)處;遠(yuǎn)方
If you can see something in the distance, you can see it, far away from you.
例句
We suddenly saw her in the distance...
我們突然看見她在遠(yuǎn)處。
Mr. Dambar found himself gazing into the distance for a moment or two.
丹巴先生不知不覺朝遠(yuǎn)方凝視了片刻。
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N-UNCOUNT
冷淡;不友好
Distance is coolness or unfriendliness in the way that someone behaves towards you.
例句
There were periods of sulking, of pronounced distance, of coldness.
沉悶、明顯不友好和冷淡的場面多次出現(xiàn)。
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VERB
使疏遠(yuǎn);對…冷淡;使不介入
If you distance yourself from a person or thing, or if something distances you from them, you feel less friendly or positive towards them, or become less involved with them.
例句
The author distanced himself from some of the comments in his book...
作者使自己書中的某些評論不帶個(gè)人色彩。
Television may actually be distancing the public from the war.
電視實(shí)際上可能讓公眾遠(yuǎn)離戰(zhàn)爭。
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PHRASE
在遠(yuǎn)處;相距遙遠(yuǎn);久遠(yuǎn)地
If you are at a distance from something, or if you see it or remember it from a distance, you are a long way away from it in space or time.
例句
The only way I can cope with my mother is at a distance...
我可以和我媽媽相處的唯一方法就是保持距離。
Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years.
時(shí)隔40年后，現(xiàn)在我可以回顧整個(gè)悲劇了。
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PHRASE
保持疏遠(yuǎn);保持距離
If you keep your distance from someone or something or keep them at a distance, you do not become involved with them.
例句
Jay had always tended to keep his girlfriends at a distance.
杰伊一貫和他的女朋友們保持距離。
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PHRASE
不靠近;保持距離
If you keep your distance from someone or something, you do not get physically close to them.
例句
He walked towards the doorway, careful to keep his distance.
他走向門口，小心翼翼地保持著距離。