in the distant future

基本解释

What will the earth be like in the distant future?
在遥远的未来地球会是什么样呢？
And we’re not just talking about disasters in the distant future, either.
同样，我们并不仅仅在谈论遥远未来的灾难。
Conversely, the benefits that will emerge in the distant future will be felt mostly in poorer countries.
而在遥远的未来才会显现的好处，相反地，受益的大多是相对贫穷的国家。

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.
When I thought about what I wanted in survival, it wasn't enough that there be somebody in the distant future that be me.
当我思考生存的意义时，仅仅是未来某一时刻,有一个我是不足够的。
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Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.
或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了
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Conversely, the benefits that will emerge in the distant future will be felt mostly in poorer countries.
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