1.The deepest sediments were laid down in the distant past, while more recent sediments were nearer the surface.
最深处的沉积物来自最遥远的过去，而表层的沉积物来自较近的时代。
2.When nigh fell, he would make his home in a tent-like bamboo shed. Oh, that is something of distant past!
但这是怎样辽远的想象呵在这多尘土的国土里，我仅只希望听见一点树叶上的雨声。
3.Even if alternative life does not exist now, it might have flourished in the distant past before dying out for some reason.
这种非传统的生命形式现在并不存在，在遥远的过去它就已经因为某些原因绝迹。
4.Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century.
小精灵、小妖怪和侏儒似乎很久以前就被创造出来而且流传至今，而小妖精一词则是20世纪的产物。
5.Those events in a far-distant past, hidden in the darkness of primitive mankind's history, are no longer of any concern for our day.
那些事件发生在遥远的过去，隐藏在原始人类历史的黑暗之中，对于我们今天已经没有任何关系了。
6.when night fell, the duckling raiser would make his home in a tent-like bamboo shed. oh, that is something of the distant past!
夜来了，帐幕似的竹蓬撑在地上，就是他的家。但这是怎样辽远的想象啊！
7.In the beginning, in a far distant past of Earth history, humans and animals used to cohabit very lovingly and peacefully.
开元时期，在地球历史上的遥远过去，人类和动物原本是同居一起，非常友好与和平。
8.In the distant past, climate variations may have shaped the very nature of our species.
在遥远的过去，气候变化塑成了我们这些物种的本质。
9.In the dim and distant past, picking the best stocks was just seen as being clever; now that skill is known as "alpha" .
在模糊和遥远的过去，挑出最好的股票只被看作是明智之举，而现在这一技巧被叫做“阿尔法（alpha）”。
10.In my mind, it is possible to envision a world without extreme poverty, where imaginations of poverty will be of the distant past.
在我看来，是有可能的设想世界的极端贫困，在想象力的贫困将是遥远的过去。