So if you place a significant weight on the really, really distant future, the case for action is stronger than even the 2100 estimates suggest.

所以如果你看重相当、相当遥远的未来的话，那么采取行动的理由甚至比应对2100年所需更充分。

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The story seems to take place in some distant past, until a mobile phone rings.

故事好像发生在久远的故去，直到移动电话响起。

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I have spent the day in a fabled place more distant than a train ride away, a well-lit world under a brighter sky, with Nobel Laureate parking Spaces and catacombs lined with books.

我已经在比火车要去的地方还远的幻境中呆了一天，蓝天之下的一井之地，在诺贝尔奖获得者的停车位和藏着书籍的古墓穴。

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Sony and Nintendo pretty much have it locked up now, but Sega Enterprises could come out of a distant third place to give them a serious challenge.

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In the face of continuing warfare in Cambodia, many Americans have chosen to turn away from the conflict there, viewing that unfortunate nation as a distant place of permanent pain.

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The second, the unchangeability bias, is the idea that when we face large decisions that seem to be immutable (getting married, having kids, moving to a distant place), the permanence of these decisions makes them seem even larger and more frightening.

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