The customer wasn't anxious to eat but to stare into the distance.

铁杆吃客坦然坐下并不急于下嘴，只微笑着看着远方。

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Many pass the daytime hours in long corridors furnished with chairs, where they chat or simply stare into the distance.

很多人坐在长廊的椅子上渡过白天，他们在那聊天，或只是看看远处。

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If you never stare off into the distance, you'll never get there.

如果总是目光短浅，那么你永远都到不了远方。

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Both as Wayne and as super-Wayne he seems indifferent, as the films themselves are, to the activities of little people, and to the claims of the everyday, preferring to semi-purse his lips, as if preparing to whistle for an errant dog, and stare pensively into the distance.

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