单词 | far-flung |
释义 | far-flung Word forms: farther-flung , farthest-flung 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Far-flung places are a very long distance away from where you are or from important places. Ferries are a lifeline to the far-flung corners of Scotland. ...one of the farthest-flung outposts of the old Roman Empire. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something such as organization or system as far-flung, you mean that it extends over a very large area. ...a far-flung network of conspirators. Collocations: far-flung corner Another day, another drilling report from one of our oil explorers in some far-flung corner of the globe. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Want to brush up on your management skills, but posted in some far-flung corner of the world? Times, Sunday Times (2007) Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It's not an ancient tale of tribal warfare in some far-flung land. The Sun The walkways play a small, but significant role in further uniting those far-flung lands. Times, Sunday Times It might be said that he had the plight of far-flung lands in his blood. Times, Sunday Times Of course, when reaching out to one's subjects - particularly those in far-flung lands - one must mix majesty with modesty. Times, Sunday Times In far-flung locations, people can't simply pop to a nearby town. Times, Sunday Times This logistics expert operates in some of the most hazardous and far-flung locations in the world. Times, Sunday Times Filming in such far-flung locations can be dangerous. The Sun Invariably they have come from far-flung locations. Times, Sunday Times Here's a selection of far-flung locations that offer at least a few of the comforts of home. Times, Sunday Times Traders used the lake and rivers to pass back and forth through their far-flung network. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The codebreakers were backed up by a far-flung network of listening and radio direction finding stations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They formed a subterranean liberal international, creating far-flung networks to resist tyranny. The Times Literary Supplement Is there any purpose to sending out large-scale expeditions to explore far-flung places? Times, Sunday Times Severe weather patterns such as these tend to be controlled by complex interactions in far-flung places. Times, Sunday Times Given her decades partaking of unusual fare in far-flung places, one doubts the suggestion will trouble her. The Sun The stories gathered here are mostly set in far-flung places, often in the distant past, and several culminate in a nerveshredding revelation. The Times Literary Supplement Specifically, she doesn't trouble herself with how travellers might have got to far-flung places, but instead concentrates on the evidence that they did. Times,Sunday Times Or that we just have to take more arts to more places in far-flung regions. Times, Sunday Times Electromagnetic distortion created by the malfunctioning terraformers have rendered most long-distance communication and air transit impossible, isolating far-flung regions much as they would have been isolated in the 19th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Secondly, trade and other commercial activities of the nation broaden the market's reach not only to neighboring areas but also to far-flung regions, creating international markets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He transformed the far-flung suburb into a hugely valuable township of apartments and offices, which now lies in the midst of one of the world's biggest cities. Times, Sunday Times The final scene of that film showed him living in a far-flung suburb, declaring quite bitterly that he was now 'an average nobody'. Times, Sunday Times Shopping for my parents took me to dingy shops in far-flung suburbs where they still had stock left over from the 1950s. Times, Sunday Times Its meandering route, which links two far-flung suburbs, seems eccentric, given the desperate need for better connectivity on the city's main north-south axis. Times, Sunday Times |
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