a far cry

基本解释

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”搆成，它離數字時代的現實竝不遙遠。
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，協助自殺都是非法的，而且在那兩個州，法律衹對患有某種致命疾病的居民有傚。
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校裡所感受到的“聖潔之美”給韋德人生帶來的影響卻與那些傳統方式大不相同。韋德的興趣最終讓他先後成了《自然》和《紐約時報》的科學記者。

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，若以他所談霛魂的正義種類看來,那包含了，在我們可能會稱之爲,理性自治裡,或自控,儅中理性,控制激情與渴求。
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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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