關於Distant的意思和用法的提問

A: 請到提問詳情頁確認

A: It means that you are cool, unfriendly, not willing to talk to people.

A: far away

A: distant 是遥远的意思

A: Far away:

You need to learn to run long distances to compete with the champs.
The distance from my house to yours is about 78,000 miles.

A: Mark came in first with John at a distant second.

A: 1) New York is distant from Shanghai.
2) I've never met my aunt's daughter. She's a distant relative.
3) You seem very distant. You are not acting like your normal self to me.

A: Past is the antonym of future.

First, the technical definitions:
Distance is more about meters, kilometers, mathematical measures of length, and so on. The Moon is distant from the Earth. The Earth and the Moon are both distant from the sun.

The past is about time. We travelled to the moon in the past in 1969. HIstory is about the past. A bill that is overdue to be paid might be stamped "Past due." In the past, no one used credit cards. In the past, all phones were attached to the wall with a wire.

Figurative/descriptive/poetic English:

In the distant past, the Earth was just a ball of water. Here, distant past = a long time ago.

My girlfriend was distant from me on our date. Here, distant means emotionally cold or uninterested.

Let me know if this is clear, I take these questions seriously.

A: To be completely honest, they would mean the same thing but you’ll never hear someone say “how distant” unless you were speaking of a relationship, not meaning physical distance but in regards to how close a relationship is.

A: Their similarity is that they both mean that something or someone is not in proximity. On that note distant is the better choice since it's more commonly used than remote!

But distant can also mean that someone is cold (emotionally)

Remote can also be a noun, like a tv remote control

A: distant is far away and remote is somewhere with little cities and places around it, kinda set off

Alex asked, "Can you see the park? it's just over there in the distance," when we were thirty minutes away.

People in America use the the phrase "We're in Timbucktoo" as a way of saying we're somewhere remote, or far from other people.