distant

xa xôi

Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

ℹ Từ 'xa xôi' có thể dùng cho cả khoảng cách vật lý và các khái niệm trừu tượng như mối quan hệ họ hàng hoặc sự tập trung tư tưởng.

• We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.
• Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

xa cách

Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

ℹ Từ 'xa cách' thường được dùng để mô tả khoảng cách về mặt tình cảm, trong khi 'lạnh nhạt' nhấn mạnh vào sự thiếu quan tâm hoặc thờ ơ trong cách ứng xử.

• Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
• Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.Kể từ sau cuộc tranh cãi, cô ấy trở nên rất xa cách với tôi.

ngoài vùng phủ sóng

Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

ℹ Đây là thuật ngữ chuyên ngành trong lĩnh vực truyền hình cáp, không dùng để chỉ khoảng cách vật lý thông thường.

• Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]
• Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.