1FARa greater distance than before or than something else; a comparative form of ‘far’ 更远地〔far的一种比较级形式〕SYN further
We decided not to go any farther.
我们决定不再往前走了。
farther away/apart/down/along etc
The boats were drifting farther and farther apart.
那些小船顺水漂流,彼此距离越来越远。
a resort town farther up the coast
沿海岸更远处的一个度假小镇
farther south/north etc
Two miles farther south is the village of Santa Catarina.
再往南两英里就是圣卡塔里娜村。
Most of them were locals, but some had come from farther afield (=a greater distance away).
他们大部分是当地人,但也有一些来自较远的地方。
2MORE/EXTRAif you do something farther, you do it more or to a greater degree 在更大程度上,更进一步SYN further
We’d better investigate farther.
我们最好作进一步的调查。
The police decided not to take the matter any farther (=do more about it).
警方决定不再追查此事。
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In everyday English, people usually say further rather than farther, and furthest rather than farthest: 在日常英语中,人们一般用further、furthest,而不用farther、farthest
We decided not to take it any further.
我们决定不再追究此事。
This was the furthest away from home I’d ever been.
farther afield• A third of its people are homeless and many of them have fled Chechnya altogether in search of safety farther afield.• But again, we can go even farther afield.• For those of us who lived farther afield and were dependent on buses, such participation was seldom possible.• Adultbirdsfail, apparently, to flyfarther afield in search of food.• What is more, if we look farther afield, our magnificent 100 feet dwindles into insignificance.• Black takes advantage of the weather to wanderfarther afield than previously, and Blue follows.• Clubs were cancelling mid-week bookingsdue to short time and I had to travelfarther afield to find work.• As you travel farther afield, you find that none of these things is true.
take ... farther• The police will not let us take one step farther.• The capacity to generateelectricity has been taken even farther by one fish in the Amazon, the electriceel.• His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden.• This, then, takes farther the secret police parable of the first play.
farther2adjectiveadj [only before noun]
FARmore distant; a comparative form of ‘far’ 更远的〔far的一种比较级形式〕SYN further
A table stood at the farther end of the kitchen.
厨房的那一头放着一张桌子。
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farther• He saw the pond they called the lake and the greybulk of the Mithraeum on the farthershore.