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.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。
3.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。
4.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！
5.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。
6.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。
7.They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past, and was formed from living things in the sea.
他们认为，根据对在遥远的过去的起源，地球表面的油，是从生活在海中形成的东西。
8.In short, quasar activity, like star formation, was more vigorous in the distant past, a third sign that we live in relatively boring times.
简单地说，类星体的活动就像恒星的形成一样，在遥远的过去比今天更为猛烈，这是第三个指标，显示出我们生活在一个相对较为乏味的年代。
9.That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained.
这说明，人类在过去进化的速度比现在慢。
10.one undersea ridge south of the Nicobars was once, he suspects, a piece of Sumatra that sunk in the distant past.
他怀疑，尼古巴群岛南边的海底山脊，在很久以前曾经是苏门达腊的一部份，只是后来沉没了。