| 单词 | afar |
| 释义 | afar (once / 640 pages) adv If something's off at a distance, you can describe it as being afar. You might write a letter to your pen pal in Japan, and say, "This note comes to you from afar." Afar is a poetic and old-fashioned way to say "far away" or "distant." If your summer visitors have traveled from afar, they've come a long way to see you, and if your boyfriend moves to Australia, you might have to continue your relationship from afar. The word is a shortened form of the Old English of feor, in which of means "of" or "on," and feor is "far, remote, or distant." WORD FAMILYafar: afars USAGE EXAMPLES"She didn't even talk to me, she just waved goodbye from afar. She was crying." BBC(Dec 28, 2016) On how hard it was to watch tennis from afar: New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Like church spires, tall twin smokestacks announce the campus from afar, declaring the center a factory for ideas. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) adv (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far we traveled afar we could see the ship afar off the Magi came from afar |
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