a far cry

基本解釋

The Borgesian library, which is “perfect, complete and whole” and composed of “all books”, is not a far cry from reality in the digital age.
博爾赫斯的圖書館是“完美、完整而完全的”，由“所有的書”構(gòu)成，它離數(shù)字時(shí)代的現(xiàn)實(shí)并不遙遠(yuǎn)。
That's a far cry from the US approach, where assisted suicide is illegal everywhere except Oregon and Washington, and in those states available only to residents suffering from a deadly disease.
這與美國式的做法大不相同，美國除了俄勒岡州和華盛頓州，協(xié)助自殺都是非法的，而且在那兩個(gè)州，法律只對(duì)患有某種致命疾病的居民有效。
The “beauty of holiness” in a British private school is a far cry from the sort of religion that later came to interest him as a science journalist at Nature magazine and then the New York Times.
在那所著名的私立學(xué)校里所感受到的“圣潔之美”給韋德人生帶來的影響卻與那些傳統(tǒng)方式大不相同。韋德的興趣最終讓他先后成了《自然》和《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》的科學(xué)記者。

Some recent surveys show the president's overall approval rating at or just above 50 percent a far cry from higher numbers in the early days of his administration.
But this seems to be a very far cry, ? does it not, from the kind of justice he talks about in the soul that consists in what we might think of as sort of rational autonomy or self-control where reason controls the passions and the appetites.
但這似乎非常地遙不可及，不是嗎，若以他所談靈魂的正義種類看來,那包含了，在我們可能會(huì)稱之為,理性自治里,或自控,當(dāng)中理性,控制激情與渴求。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
It was like the cry of a lost child in the far deep of the darkening forest!

Yet attacking narrow special interests is a far cry from embracing economic competition for everyone else.
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