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1

Far; distant; remote

用例

• そこはここから遠いか
  Is it far from here to the place?

• 地球から月までどれほど遠いか
  How far is it from the earth to the moon?
• そこはここからよほど遠い
  It is very far from here―far distant from here.
• ヨーロッパは日本から遠い
  Europe is far distant from Japan.
• 遠い国
  a far country
  a distant country
• 遠い所
  a distant place
• （彼は近眼だから）遠い処は見えぬ
  He can not see far.
• 路が遠い
  The way is long.
• 王子までは路が遠い
  It is a long way to Oji
  Oji is a long way off.
• 遠い親類
  a distant relation
• あの人は遠い親類だ
  He is distantly related to me.
• 遠い親類より近い他人
  A good neighbour is better than a relation afar off.
• 遠い昔
  remote antiquity
• 完全にはまだ遠い
  It is far from perfect.
• 目的を達するにはまだ先が遠い
  We are still far from our object.
• 遠くに灯火が見える
  I see a light far away―a long way off―in the distance.
• 遠くから来る
  to come from afar
• その必要を生ずる時の来るは遠きにあらず
  The day is not far distant when the necessity will arise.
• 当たらずといえども遠からず
  You are not far from the mark
  You are very nearly right
  It is approximate.
• 遠く離れている
  to be far apart
• 遠く離れて
  When far apart are we,
• 　会われぬ時は
  And can't each other see,
• 　月が鏡と
  Would that the moon could be
• 　なれば好い
  A mirror clear to me!
• 遠からん者は音にも聞け
  Ye who are afar, hear and tremble!
• 　近くは寄って目にも見よ
  Ye who are near, behold and be blessed!

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用例

• 遠く及ばぬ
  to be not nearly so good as the other

• 器量は遠く姉に及ばぬ
  She is not nearly so beautiful as her sister―nothing like as beautiful as her sister―far inferior to her sister in beauty―not a patch upon her sister in beauty.
• 学問は遠く兄に及ばぬ
  He is not nearly so good a scholar as his brother―nothing like as good a scholar as his brother―far behind his brother in scholarship―not a patch upon his brother in scholarship.
• 遠くなる
  to recede
• 船がだんだん遠くなる
  A ship recedes from the view.
• 気が遠くなる
  to grow faint
• 足が遠くなる
  to cease to be a frequent visitor
• 結婚すると足の遠くなる人がある
  When some people marry, they let the grass grow on the path of friendship.
• 耳が遠い
  to be hard of hearing―dull of hearing―slow of hearing
• 遠くて近きは男女の仲
  “Man is fire and woman is tow.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 遠く慮る
  to be prudent―use prudence
• 遠き慮りあれば近き憂い無し
  Prudence averts danger.
• 遠き慮り無ければ近き憂い有り
  Imprudence courts danger.