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far

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far1 /fɑː $ fɑːr/ S1 W1 adverbadv (comparativecomp farther /ˈfɑːðə $ ˈfɑːrðər/ or further /ˈfɜːðə $ ˈfɜːrðər/, superlativesupl farthest /ˈfɑːðɪst $ ˈfɑːr-/ or furthest /ˈfɜːðɪst $ ˈfɜːr-/) → fa

1 distance 距離

a) FARa long distance 遠

Have you driven far?

你開了很遠了嗎？

Since I changed jobs, I have to travel further to get to work.

我換了工作，上班更遠了。

Let’s see who can jump the furthest!

我們來比比誰跳得最遠！

far from

The children don’t go far from home.

孩子們不會離家很遠。

far away

She wants to move as far away from here as possible.

她想盡量搬得離這兒遠些。

They could hear the sound of water not far away.

他們聽見不遠處有水聲。

far down

He lives further down the street.

沿這條街再往前走一點就是他的住處。

further afield (=further away from where you are now) 更遠

If you want to go further afield, there are bicycles for hire.

要是你想去更遠的地方，有自行車可以租。

further north/south etc

Many birds fly further south in the autumn.

秋天，許多鳥類飛往更南的地方。

The plains stretched for as far as the eye could see (=all the distance you could see).

平原一望無際。

The lake is about 4 miles away, but we probably won’t get that far (=won’t go as far as that place).

那座湖大概在四英裏之外，但我們可能不會去那麽遠。

b) how farDISTANCE used when asking the distance between two places, or when talking about the distance between two places 多遠

How far is it to the station?

離車站多遠？

The man didn’t say how far it was to the next town.

那名男子沒說下一個鎮有多遠。

c) as far as something to a place or point, but not beyond it 遠至某地點

They managed to get as far as the Spanish border.

他們一直跑到西班牙邊境。

n Register

In everyday English, far is usually only used in negative sentences (it’s not far) and questions (how far…?)

In positive sentences, people usually use the expression a long way:

Her house was a long way from the nearest town.

It’s so far to go! → It’s such a long way to go!

2 a lot/very much 很多/非常LOT/VERY MUCH very much, or to a great degree 很大程度上

far better/easier etc

The new system is far better than the old one.

新系統比舊系統好許多。

There are a far greater number of women working in television than twenty years ago.

從事電視工作的女性遠比20年前多。

far more/less

I enjoyed it far more than I expected.

我遠比預想的更喜歡它。

far too much/long/busy etc

That’s far too much to pay.

這個價錢太高了。

It would take me far too long to explain.

我得花很長時間來解釋。

far above/below/beyond

He bought it for a price that was far beyond (=much more than) its real value.

他出的價錢遠遠高於實際價值。

The teacher said that her writing skills were far below average.

老師說她的寫作能力遠低於平均水平。

We’ve kept the original features of the house as far as possible (=as much as possible).

我們盡量保留了房子的原貌。

How far do those old, outdated laws affect today’s legislation?

那些陳舊過時的法律對今天的立法有多少影響？

His style was far removed (=very different) from that of Picasso.

他的風格與畢加索有天壤之别。

not far off/out/wrong (=close to being correct) 幾乎正確

I guessed it would cost $100 and it was $110, so I was not far out.

我猜這東西要100美元，其實是110美元，所以我基本猜對。

3 progress 進展VERY used to talk about how much progress someone makes, or how much effect something has 〔用於表示進展情況或影響程度〕

He started to explain, but he didn’t get far (=he did not succeed in saying very much) before Mary interrupted him.

他開始解釋起來，但沒說幾句就被瑪麗打斷了。

get as far as doing something

They had got as far as painting the kitchen.

他們已經開始粉刷廚房了。

Many people felt that the new law did not go far enough (=did not have a big enough effect, so that more needed to be done).

許多人認爲新的法律力度不夠。

4 time 時間LONG TIME a long time in the past or the future, or a long time into a particular period 久，久遠

far into

We talked far into the night.

我們談到深夜。

far ahead

They want to plan much further ahead than the next few years.

他們想計劃得更長遠，而不光是接下來的幾年。

The first petrol-driven car was produced as far back as 1883.

第一輛汽油動力車的生産要回溯到1883年。

→ far-off

5 go too far (also take/carry something too far)TOO/TOO MUCH to do something too extreme 〔將某事〕做得太過分

One day she will go too far.

她總有一天會做得太過分的。

Some people thought he had gone too far in his criticism of the police.

有些人覺得他對警方的批評太過分了。

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go too far• Investors are concerned that real estate inflation has gone too far.• We have already gone too far.• Surely a barber didn't hold his client in this way, was he perhaps going too far?• Their elders in Linea 13 try to keep them from going too far.• They want to go too far.• She would make sure she did not go too far, or too soon.• Has he gone too far out of bounds to get back on course?• They never went too far out.• I can only hope I am proved wrong: things have gone too far to turn back the tide.• The court ruled that the police went too far when they handcuffed Rooney to a chair.

6 go so far/as far as to do something spokenBELIEVE to do or say something extreme 竟然做某事，甚至做某事

The government went so far as to try to arrest opposition leaders.

政府竟然企圖逮捕反對黨領導人。

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that we agreed on the subject.

我才不會說我們在這個問題上意見是一致的。

7 so far (also thus far formal)NOW until now 到目前爲止，迄今爲止

So far we have not had to borrow any money.

到目前爲止，我們還不必借錢。

They’re delighted with the replies they’ve received from the public thus far.

到目前爲止，他們還滿意公衆的反應。

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so far• I think he's done a great job so far.• Selman has sold off two-thirds of his herd so far.• There haven't been any problems so far.• However, the military were not having much success so far.• Our final rehearsal before Farnham, however, delivered the cruellest blow so far.• Because he was so far ahead in his first year, he spent his time on other things.• We've raised twelve thousand dollars so far, and we expect to reach our goal by the end of next week.• And so far Conservative strategy has been anything but effective.• There were times that Iverson was so far down the court that Mutombo didn't make it to halfcourt.• The treatment so far had been innocuous: quinine pills and injections of alum water.• On the other hand, the technology plainly is not ready; so far, the tests have been embarrassing.• This is the hottest day we've had so far this summer.

8 so far so good spokenSUCCESSFUL used to say that things have been happening successfully until now 到目前爲止一切都好

We’ve reached the semi-finals. So far so good.

我們進入了半決賽，到目前爲止一切順利。

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so far so good• "How's your new job?" "So far so good."

9 far from something OPPOSITE/REVERSEused to say that something very different is true or happens 遠非…，完全不…

Conditions are still far from ideal.

條件仍很不理想。

far from doing/being something

Far from helping the situation, you’ve just made it worse.

你那樣非但於事無補，反而把事情弄得更糟了。

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far from doing/being something• He was far from being a stuffy bureaucrat.• The dynamics and importance of H pylori reduced altered mucosal peptic activity is far from being clarified.• To mention infantile sexuality is now commonplace, although far from being fully acceptable or comprehensible to many people.• But these ships were on a mission that is far from being innocent.• She was far from being so, and I always remember her with affection for the way she enlivened my drama classes.• But he is far from being the person who was hurt most.• But now I find that solitude, far from being the price, is turning out to be the prize.

10 far from it spoken used to say that the opposite of what has just been said is true 完全相反，遠非如此

‘Are you bored?’ ‘Far from it. I could listen all night.’

“你厭煩了嗎？”“才沒呢，我聽一晚上都行。”

Local people aren’t objecting – far from it.

當地人不反對——完全不反對。

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far from it• Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it - far from it.• By accepting it, the world is not taking on Western civilization lock, stock and barrel: far from it.• I would not afford the remedy of judicial review in all those cases - far from it.• Not that Dad was unsympathetic toward animals; far from it.• Not that there had been many recently, far from it.• Not that we would defend all of what passes or has passed for religion; far from it.• This does not mean that only wellknown or straight forward subjects and themes are to be staged. far from it.• Being far from it makes it less real.

11 far and wide over a large area 四處，到處

His fame spread far and wide.

他聲名遠揚。

People came from far and wide (=came from many places) to see the concert.

人們從各地趕來聽音樂會。

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came from far and wide• Class embers came from far and wide - a dedicated crew.• Prosperity came to Knock, as pilgrims came from far and wide; and Father Cavanagh kept his ears.

12 by far/far and away VERYused to say that something is much better, worse etc than anything else 得多，最

Watching sport was by far the most popular activity on Saturday afternoons.

周六下午看體育比賽是最受歡迎的活動。

Spring is far and away the best time to visit the islands.

春天是去這些島嶼旅遊的最佳季節。

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by far/far and away• Coolness is by far and away the most important feature of a car these days.

13 somebody will/would/should etc go far SUCCESSFULused to say that you think someone will be successful in the future 某人會/準能成功

He was the best student in his year, and everyone was sure he would go far.

他是同年級最好的學生，每個人都確信他將大有作爲。

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somebody will/would/should etc go far• Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far.• She'd been sure her daughter would go far.• This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.• And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.• Whether the stadium logs another round of lease-backed debt will go far in determining the fate of other major capital-improvement projects here.• A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.• It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.• Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.

14 as/so far as I’m concerned OPINION spoken used when giving your opinion about something 就我而言，依我看來

As far as I’m concerned she can come home whenever she likes.

就我而言，只要她願意，随時可以回家。

15 as/so far as something is concerned spoken used when you want to talk about a particular thing 就某事而論，至於某事

As far as money’s concerned, there shouldn’t be a problem.

至於錢，應該沒有問題。

16 as/so far as I know/I can remember/I can tell/I can see etc spokenTHINK/HAVE THE OPINION THAT used to say that you think that something is true, although it is possible that you do not know all the facts or cannot remember completely 據我所知/據我所記得的/依我看

There weren’t any buildings there at all, as far as I can remember.

據我所記得的，那裏沒有任何建築。

As far as I can see, there’s nothing else to discuss.

依我看，沒有别的什麽可以討論了。

17 far be it from me to do something spokenCRITICIZE used when saying that you do not want to criticize someone or say what they should do, especially when this is what you are really about to do 不是我想做某事〔用於批評或告誡某人但又表示自己並非想這麽做〕

Far be it from me to teach you your job, but don’t you think you should have been more careful?

不是我想教你怎麽工作，只是你難道不認爲應該更加仔細些嗎？

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far be it from me to do something• Far be it from me to tell you what to wear.

18 as far as it goes LIMITused to say that an idea, suggestion, plan etc is satisfactory, but only to a limited degree 在有限的程度上

His theories are fine, as far as they go.

他的理論大致上還算不錯。

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as far as it goes• What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.• That is encouraging as far as it goes.• Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.• We push it as far as it goes.• This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.• My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.• That's as far as it goes with me.

19 not go far

a) ENOUGHif money does not go far, you cannot buy very much with it 〔錢〕買不了多少東西，不經用

My salary doesn’t go very far these days.

如今，我的薪水買不了多少東西。

b) ENOUGHif a supply of something does not go far, it is not enough 不夠用，不足

The coffee won’t go far if everyone wants a cup.

如果每個人都要一杯，那咖啡就不夠了。

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not go far• This pizza won't go far if everyone wants some.• The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.• The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union.• But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.• In general, though, the managers felt the training did not go far enough.• Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.• The privatisations also help, even if they do not go far enough.• The symposium also featured a couple of members of Congress who believe the farm reforms did not go far enough.• A dollar doesn't go very far these days.• They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long, moaning howl.

20 in so far as/insofar as/in as far as formalPARTLY to the degree that 到…的程度

The research suggests that the drug will be successful, in so far as one can draw conclusions from such a small sample size.

研究表明，就目前這麽小規模試用所得出的結論來看，這種藥是會成功的。

THESAURUS

far adverbadv a long distance – used mainly in negatives and questions, or after ‘too’, ‘so’, and ‘as’ 遠〔主要用於否定句、疑問句或用於 too、so 和 as 之後〕

It’s not far to the airport from here.

這裏離機場不遠。

Have you driven far?

你開車跑了很遠嗎？

The ship was so far away we could hardly see it.

那艘船離得很遠，我們幾乎都看不見。

a long way adverbadv a long distance from somewhere. This is the most common way of talking about long distances, except in negatives and questions when far is also common 遠〔表示距離遠最常用的說法，而在否定句和疑問句裏far也常用〕

You must be tired – you’ve come a long way.

你肯定累了——跑了那麽遠的路。

It’s a long way down from the top of the cliff.

從懸崖頂下來有很長一段路。

nI can’t see things that are a long way away.

miles adverbadv informal a very long way 很長的距離

We hiked miles.

我們徒步走了很遠。

The school is miles away from where I live.

學校離我住的地方很遠。

in the distance adverbadv a long way from where you are now – used when talking about things that seem small or sounds that seem quiet because they are a long way away 遠處〔用於表示某物因距離遠而看上去小或聲音因距離遠而聽不清〕

Dogs were barking somewhere in the distance.

遠遠地有狗在吠。

distant adjectiveadj especially written used about something that is a long distance from where you are now, and looks small or sounds quiet 遠處的〔用於表示某物距離遠，看上去小或聲音輕〕

By now, the plane was just a distant speck in the sky.

現在，那架飛機只是天空中遠遠的一個小點。

the rumble of distant thunder

遠處隆隆的雷聲

faraway adjectiveadj especially written a very long distance from where you are now 來自遠處的

a traveller from a faraway land

來自遙遠國度的遊客

His voice sounded faraway.

他的聲音似乎很遙遠。

nHe told us stories about the faraway countries he had visited.

remote adjectiveadj a remote place is a long distance from other places, and few people go there 〔地方〕偏遠的

The helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country.

這架直升機在該國的偏遠地區墜毀。

remote holiday destinations

偏遠的度假目的地

isolated adjectiveadj an isolated place is a long distance from other towns, buildings, or people, and there is very little communication with surrounding places 偏僻閉塞的

isolated rural areas of Nepal

尼泊爾偏僻的農村地區

Occasionally we passed through a small isolated village.

偶爾我們會經過一個偏僻的小村莊。

nIf you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.

off the beaten track (also off the beaten path American EnglishAmE) adverbadv a place that is off the beaten track is a long distance from the places where people usually go, and often seems interesting and different because of this 〔地方〕偏遠，僻靜〔因此顯得有趣、與衆不同〕

She likes to go to places that are a bit off the beaten track.

她喜歡去一些人迹罕至的地方。

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far• I don't want to drive very far.• Who do you think can jump the farthest?• Alfonsina Storni seems to have veered as far as possible to the opposite extreme.• Sometimes as far as sixty miles.• We won't be able to go much farther because of the snow.• I was now far behind the others and knew I couldn't catch up.• Cleveland isn't very far from here.• We were sitting too far from the stage to hear what the actors were saying.• Eventually Mark found a place for it far in the bows of the raft, like a miniature fourth mast.• Some people were far more concerned about tuberculosis.• Only two children have talked about the incidents so far, she said.• Lightning dipped and veered in a manner which was far too close for comfort.• But there were far too few new faces, and far too many head office honchos.• Because of the language barrier and culture shock, such insights are far too rare.

not far off/out/wrong• In the high country, winter is not far off.• Of course ticket-of-leave is never full of pardon but it's not far off.• The money-collecting always seemed to mean that trouble was not far off.• That much was not far out of the ordinary among Jesuit scholastics.• I was a lad, and there was a farm not far off us.

go far enough• But does it go far enough?• But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.• Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.• The package also angered many Hong Kong liberals who argued that the reforms did not go far enough.• This does not go far enough.• The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.• Loretta decided she had gone far enough, and used the beginning of a farm track to turn the car in.• The account, however, failed to go far enough to explain the supply side of the situation.

as far back as• Plans for a share offering date as far back as the late 1980s.• Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842.• The city had already established a group of engineering colleges as far back as 1860.• The first recorded game took place as far back as 1851 with a match between Oporton and Lisbon.• There are all of these companies or older industrialized sites from as far back as the turn of the century.• There is a dominant sense of existentialism running through your books, beginning as far back as your first novel.• There is some history of women trying to form soccer leagues in Great Britain as far back as the 1800s.• They were in fact social outcasts, to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century.

far2 S1 W1 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp farther or further, superlativesupl farthest or furthest)

1 FARa long distance away 遠的 OPP near

We can walk to my house from here. It isn’t far.

我們可以從這裏步行去我家，不遠。

You could see the mountains in the far distance.

你可以看到遠處的群山。

2 the far side/end/corner etc FARthe side, end etc that is furthest from you 更遠的一端/一邊/一個角落等 OPP near

They crossed the bridge and walked along the far side of the stream.

他們過了橋，在對岸沿着小溪一路前行。

There was a piano in the far corner of the room.

房間的對面角落裏有一架鋼琴。

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the far side/end/corner etc• Getting into the precarious cable car, the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.• The Ocean-Warming Piglet Long ago, on the far side of our planet, there lived a farmer named Li-pin.• He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings.• There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow, away from the house and the other barns.• At the far end of the house, where her voice had faded, he heard a faucet going on.• The young man at the far end of the loom glanced at Maggie, and for an instant their eyes locked.• Just then, he saw some one walk out of the trees which bordered the far side of the pasture.• The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward.

3 the far north/south etc AREAthe part of a country or area that is furthest in the direction of north, south etc 邊遠的北部/南部等

It will become windy in the far north and west.

最北部和最西部有大風。

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the far north/south etc• I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region, the far north.• This would require the sun to be in the far north.• The ancient realm of Solland in the far south and Drakwald in the north no longer exist and consequently have no counts.• It will become windy in the far north and west, and remain warm in the south.• This is the largest gallery and the farthest South found in the Survey.• The decline of the maple began in 1912, in Pennsylvania, and reached the far north in 1932.• The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate.• The underground realm was connected by tunnels stretching from the far north to the south beyond the Old World itself.

4 the far left/right PPGpeople who have extreme left-wing or right-wing political opinions 極左/右分子

The candidate for the far right got ten percent of the vote.

極右派候選人獲得了百分之十的選票。

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the far left/right• For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.• The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.• He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.• That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.• The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.• The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.• The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.• However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.

5 be a far cry from something DIFFERENTto be very different from something 與某物大不相同

The company lost £3 million, which is a far cry from last year’s £60 million profit.

公司虧損了300萬英鎊，這與去年赢利6,000萬英鎊相去甚遠。

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be a far cry from something• Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.• But resistance is a far cry from immunity.• The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.• The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique, and still has stock dating back for generations.• It was a far cry from the modern chalet party.• The cinder-block surroundings, while not luxurious, are a far cry from the stripped-down wards of 1958 that greeted early volunteers.• The plateau was a far cry from the workaday cottages by the harbour.• The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.• Europe was a far cry from what we'd been led to expect.

n6 a bridge too far (also a step/cut/adventure etc too far) something that is too extreme

An amendment to the constitution would be regarded as a step too far.

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far• We can walk if it's not far.• In the far distance she could see the outlines of several tall buildings.• On the far side of the village was a small water mill, probably used for grinding corn.

Origin far1

Old English feorr

far1 adverbadv

→10-20

→n REGISTER1 →THESAURUS1far2 adjectiveadj

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