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far

Word family 
far1 /fɑː $ fɑːr/ ●●● S1 W1 adverbadv (comparativecomp farther /ˈfɑːðə $ ˈfɑːrðər/ or further /ˈfɜːðə $ ˈfɜːrðər/, superlativesupl farthest /ˈfɑːðɪst $ ˈfɑːr-/ or furthest /ˈfɜːðɪst $ ˈfɜːr-/)   → fa
1  distance 距离
a) FARa long distance 远
 Have you driven far?
你开了很远了吗？
 Since I changed jobs, I have to travel further to get to work.
我换了工作，上班更远了。
 Let’s see who can jump the furthest!
我们来比比谁跳得最远！
far from
 The children don’t go far from home.
孩子们不会离家很远。
far away
 She wants to move as far away from here as possible.
她想尽量搬得离这儿远些。
 They could hear the sound of water not far away.
他们听见不远处有水声。
far down
 He lives further down the street.
沿这条街再往前走一点就是他的住处。
further afield (=further away from where you are now) 更远
 If you want to go further afield, there are bicycles for hire.
要是你想去更远的地方，有自行车可以租。
further north/south etc
 Many birds fly further south in the autumn.
秋天，许多鸟类飞往更南的地方。
 The plains stretched for as far as the eye could see (=all the distance you could see).
平原一望无际。
 The lake is about 4 miles away, but we probably won’t get that far (=won’t go as far as that place).
那座湖大概在四英里之外，但我们可能不会去那么远。
b) how farDISTANCE used when asking the distance between two places, or when talking about the distance between two places 多远
 How far is it to the station?
离车站多远？
 The man didn’t say how far it was to the next town.
那名男子没说下一个镇有多远。
c) as far as something to a place or point, but not beyond it 远至某地点
 They managed to get as far as the Spanish border.
他们一直跑到西班牙边境。
n Register
In everyday English, far is usually only used in negative sentences (it’s not far) and questions (how far…?)
In positive sentences, people usually use the expression a long way:
Her house was a long way from the nearest town.
It’s so far to go! → It’s such a long way to go!
2  a lot/very much 很多/非常LOT/VERY MUCH very much, or to a great degree 很大程度上
far better/easier etc
 The new system is far better than the old one.
新系统比旧系统好许多。
 There are a far greater number of women working in television than twenty years ago.
从事电视工作的女性远比20年前多。
far more/less
 I enjoyed it far more than I expected.
我远比预想的更喜欢它。
far too much/long/busy etc
 That’s far too much to pay.
这个价钱太高了。
 It would take me far too long to explain.
我得花很长时间来解释。
far above/below/beyond
 He bought it for a price that was far beyond (=much more than) its real value.
他出的价钱远远高于实际价值。
 The teacher said that her writing skills were far below average.
老师说她的写作能力远低于平均水平。
 We’ve kept the original features of the house as far as possible (=as much as possible).
我们尽量保留了房子的原貌。
 How far do those old, outdated laws affect today’s legislation?
那些陈旧过时的法律对今天的立法有多少影响？
 His style was far removed (=very different) from that of Picasso.
他的风格与毕加索有天壤之别。
not far off/out/wrong (=close to being correct) 几乎正确
 I guessed it would cost $100 and it was $110, so I was not far out.
我猜这东西要100美元，其实是110美元，所以我基本猜对。
3  progress 进展VERY used to talk about how much progress someone makes, or how much effect something has 〔用于表示进展情况或影响程度〕
4  time 时间LONG TIME a long time in the past or the future, or a long time into a particular period 久，久远
5  go too far  (also take/carry something too far)TOO/TOO MUCH to do something too extreme 〔将某事〕做得太过分
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go too far• Investors are concerned that real estate inflation has gone too far.• We have already gone too far.• Surely a barber didn't hold his client in this way, was he perhaps going too far?• Their elders in Linea 13 try to keep them from going too far.• They want to go too far.• She would make sure she did not go too far, or too soon.• Has he gone too far out of bounds to get back on course?• They never went too far out.• I can only hope I am proved wrong: things have gone too far to turn back the tide.• The court ruled that the police went too far when they handcuffed Rooney to a chair.
6  go so far/as far as to do something spokenBELIEVE to do or say something extreme 竟然做某事，甚至做某事
7  so far  (also thus far formal)NOW until now 到目前为止，迄今为止
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so far• I think he's done a great job so far.• Selman has sold off two-thirds of his herd so far.• There haven't been any problems so far.• However, the military were not having much success so far.• Our final rehearsal before Farnham, however, delivered the cruellest blow so far.• Because he was so far ahead in his first year, he spent his time on other things.• We've raised twelve thousand dollars so far, and we expect to reach our goal by the end of next week.• And so far Conservative strategy has been anything but effective.• There were times that Iverson was so far down the court that Mutombo didn't make it to halfcourt.• The treatment so far had been innocuous: quinine pills and injections of alum water.• On the other hand, the technology plainly is not ready; so far, the tests have been embarrassing.• This is the hottest day we've had so far this summer.
8  so far so good spokenSUCCESSFUL used to say that things have been happening successfully until now 到目前为止一切都好
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so far so good• "How's your new job?" "So far so good."
9  far from something OPPOSITE/REVERSEused to say that something very different is true or happens 远非…，完全不…
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far from doing/being something• He was far from being a stuffy bureaucrat.• The dynamics and importance of H pylori reduced altered mucosal peptic activity is far from being clarified.• To mention infantile sexuality is now commonplace, although far from being fully acceptable or comprehensible to many people.• But these ships were on a mission that is far from being innocent.• She was far from being so, and I always remember her with affection for the way she enlivened my drama classes.• But he is far from being the person who was hurt most.• But now I find that solitude, far from being the price, is turning out to be the prize.
10  far from it spoken used to say that the opposite of what has just been said is true 完全相反，远非如此
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far from it• Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it - far from it.• By accepting it, the world is not taking on Western civilization lock, stock and barrel: far from it.• I would not afford the remedy of judicial review in all those cases - far from it.• Not that Dad was unsympathetic toward animals; far from it.• Not that there had been many recently, far from it.• Not that we would defend all of what passes or has passed for religion; far from it.• This does not mean that only wellknown or straight forward subjects and themes are to be staged. far from it.• Being far from it makes it less real.
11  far and wide over a large area 四处，到处
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came from far and wide• Class embers came from far and wide - a dedicated crew.• Prosperity came to Knock, as pilgrims came from far and wide; and Father Cavanagh kept his ears.
12  by far/far and away VERYused to say that something is much better, worse etc than anything else 得多，最
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by far/far and away• Coolness is by far and away the most important feature of a car these days.
13  somebody will/would/should etc go far SUCCESSFULused to say that you think someone will be successful in the future 某人会/准能成功
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somebody will/would/should etc go far• Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far.• She'd been sure her daughter would go far.• This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.• And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.• Whether the stadium logs another round of lease-backed debt will go far in determining the fate of other major capital-improvement projects here.• A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.• It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.• Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.
14  as/so far as I’m concerned OPINION spoken used when giving your opinion about something 就我而言，依我看来
15  as/so far as something is concerned spoken used when you want to talk about a particular thing 就某事而论，至于某事
16  as/so far as I know/I can remember/I can tell/I can see etc spokenTHINK/HAVE THE OPINION THAT used to say that you think that something is true, although it is possible that you do not know all the facts or cannot remember completely 据我所知/据我所记得的/依我看
17  far be it from me to do something spokenCRITICIZE used when saying that you do not want to criticize someone or say what they should do, especially when this is what you are really about to do 不是我想做某事〔用于批评或告诫某人但又表示自己并非想这么做〕
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far be it from me to do something• Far be it from me to tell you what to wear.
18  as far as it goes LIMITused to say that an idea, suggestion, plan etc is satisfactory, but only to a limited degree 在有限的程度上
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as far as it goes• What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.• That is encouraging as far as it goes.• Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.• We push it as far as it goes.• This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.• My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.• That's as far as it goes with me.
19  not go far 
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not go far• This pizza won't go far if everyone wants some.• The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.• The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union.• But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.• In general, though, the managers felt the training did not go far enough.• Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.• The privatisations also help, even if they do not go far enough.• The symposium also featured a couple of members of Congress who believe the farm reforms did not go far enough.• A dollar doesn't go very far these days.• They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long, moaning howl.
20  in so far as/insofar as/in as far as formalPARTLY to the degree that 到…的程度
 THESAURUS
far adverbadv a long distance – used mainly in negatives and questions, or after ‘too’, ‘so’, and ‘as’ 远〔主要用于否定句、疑问句或用于 too、so 和 as 之后〕
It’s not far to the airport from here.
这里离机场不远。
Have you driven far?
你开车跑了很远吗？
The ship was so far away we could hardly see it.
那艘船离得很远，我们几乎都看不见。
a long way adverbadv a long distance from somewhere. This is the most common way of talking about long distances, except in negatives and questions when far is also common 远〔表示距离远最常用的说法，而在否定句和疑问句里far也常用〕
You must be tired – you’ve come a long way.
你肯定累了——跑了那么远的路。
It’s a long way down from the top of the cliff.
从悬崖顶下来有很长一段路。
nI can’t see things that are a long way away.
miles adverbadv informal a very long way 很长的距离
We hiked miles.
我们徒步走了很远。
The school is miles away from where I live.
学校离我住的地方很远。
in the distance adverbadv a long way from where you are now – used when talking about things that seem small or sounds that seem quiet because they are a long way away 远处〔用于表示某物因距离远而看上去小或声音因距离远而听不清〕
Dogs were barking somewhere in the distance.
远远地有狗在吠。
distant adjectiveadj especially written used about something that is a long distance from where you are now, and looks small or sounds quiet 远处的〔用于表示某物距离远，看上去小或声音轻〕
By now, the plane was just a distant speck in the sky.
现在，那架飞机只是天空中远远的一个小点。
the rumble of distant thunder
远处隆隆的雷声
faraway adjectiveadj especially written a very long distance from where you are now 来自远处的
a traveller from a faraway land
来自遥远国度的游客
His voice sounded faraway.
他的声音似乎很遥远。
nHe told us stories about the faraway countries he had visited.
remote adjectiveadj a remote place is a long distance from other places, and few people go there 〔地方〕偏远的
The helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country.
这架直升机在该国的偏远地区坠毁。
remote holiday destinations
偏远的度假目的地
isolated adjectiveadj an isolated place is a long distance from other towns, buildings, or people, and there is very little communication with surrounding places 偏僻闭塞的
isolated rural areas of Nepal
尼泊尔偏僻的农村地区
Occasionally we passed through a small isolated village.
偶尔我们会经过一个偏僻的小村庄。
nIf you travel to isolated areas, make sure you have a good guide.
off the beaten track (also off the beaten path American EnglishAmE) adverbadv a place that is off the beaten track is a long distance from the places where people usually go, and often seems interesting and different because of this 〔地方〕偏远，僻静〔因此显得有趣、与众不同〕
She likes to go to places that are a bit off the beaten track.
她喜欢去一些人迹罕至的地方。
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far• I don't want to drive very far.• Who do you think can jump the farthest?• Alfonsina Storni seems to have veered as far as possible to the opposite extreme.• Sometimes as far as sixty miles.• We won't be able to go much farther because of the snow.• I was now far behind the others and knew I couldn't catch up.• Cleveland isn't very far from here.• We were sitting too far from the stage to hear what the actors were saying.• Eventually Mark found a place for it far in the bows of the raft, like a miniature fourth mast.• Some people were far more concerned about tuberculosis.• Only two children have talked about the incidents so far, she said.• Lightning dipped and veered in a manner which was far too close for comfort.• But there were far too few new faces, and far too many head office honchos.• Because of the language barrier and culture shock, such insights are far too rare.
not far off/out/wrong• In the high country, winter is not far off.• Of course ticket-of-leave is never full of pardon but it's not far off.• The money-collecting always seemed to mean that trouble was not far off.• That much was not far out of the ordinary among Jesuit scholastics.• I was a lad, and there was a farm not far off us.
go far enough• But does it go far enough?• But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.• Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.• The package also angered many Hong Kong liberals who argued that the reforms did not go far enough.• This does not go far enough.• The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.• Loretta decided she had gone far enough, and used the beginning of a farm track to turn the car in.• The account, however, failed to go far enough to explain the supply side of the situation.
as far back as• Plans for a share offering date as far back as the late 1980s.• Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842.• The city had already established a group of engineering colleges as far back as 1860.• The first recorded game took place as far back as 1851 with a match between Oporton and Lisbon.• There are all of these companies or older industrialized sites from as far back as the turn of the century.• There is a dominant sense of existentialism running through your books, beginning as far back as your first novel.• There is some history of women trying to form soccer leagues in Great Britain as far back as the 1800s.• They were in fact social outcasts, to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century.
far2 ●●● S1 W1 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp farther or further, superlativesupl farthest or furthest)  
1  FARa long distance away 远的 OPP near
2  the far side/end/corner etc FARthe side, end etc that is furthest from you 更远的一端/一边/一个角落等 OPP near
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the far side/end/corner etc• Getting into the precarious cable car, the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.• The Ocean-Warming Piglet Long ago, on the far side of our planet, there lived a farmer named Li-pin.• He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings.• There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow, away from the house and the other barns.• At the far end of the house, where her voice had faded, he heard a faucet going on.• The young man at the far end of the loom glanced at Maggie, and for an instant their eyes locked.• Just then, he saw some one walk out of the trees which bordered the far side of the pasture.• The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward.
3  the far north/south etc AREAthe part of a country or area that is furthest in the direction of north, south etc 边远的北部/南部等
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the far north/south etc• I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region, the far north.• This would require the sun to be in the far north.• The ancient realm of Solland in the far south and Drakwald in the north no longer exist and consequently have no counts.• It will become windy in the far north and west, and remain warm in the south.• This is the largest gallery and the farthest South found in the Survey.• The decline of the maple began in 1912, in Pennsylvania, and reached the far north in 1932.• The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate.• The underground realm was connected by tunnels stretching from the far north to the south beyond the Old World itself.
4  the far left/right PPGpeople who have extreme left-wing or right-wing political opinions 极左/右分子
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the far left/right• For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.• The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.• He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.• That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.• The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.• The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.• The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.• However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.
5  be a far cry from something DIFFERENTto be very different from something 与某物大不相同
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be a far cry from something• Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.• But resistance is a far cry from immunity.• The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.• The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique, and still has stock dating back for generations.• It was a far cry from the modern chalet party.• The cinder-block surroundings, while not luxurious, are a far cry from the stripped-down wards of 1958 that greeted early volunteers.• The plateau was a far cry from the workaday cottages by the harbour.• The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.• Europe was a far cry from what we'd been led to expect.
n6  a bridge too far  (also a step/cut/adventure etc too far) something that is too extreme
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far• We can walk if it's not far.• In the far distance she could see the outlines of several tall buildings.• On the far side of the village was a small water mill, probably used for grinding corn.
Origin far1
Old English feorr
far1 adverbadv
→10-20

→n REGISTER1 →THESAURUS1far2 adjectiveadj
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BNC: 287 COCA: 252
BNC: 287 COCA: 252
far adj.
⇨ few and far between ⇨ scarcefar adv.
⇨ go so/as far as to… ⇨ dare verb
BNC: 287 COCA: 252
far
Not near and difficult to reach: distant, far, apart...
Relating to or describing distance: long, little, away...
Function words referring to location: about, across, after...
Ways of comparing things: than, relatively, whereas...
Progress and development: progress, development, advance...
Serious, severe and extreme: serious, severe, extreme...
At an unspecified time in the future: later, someday, sooner or later...
A long time ago: in the old days, way back, long...

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