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.
博尔赫斯的图书馆是“完美、完整而完全的”，由“所有的书”构成，它离数字时代的现实并不遥远。
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.
这与美国式的做法大不相同，美国除了俄勒冈州和华盛顿州，协助自杀都是非法的，而且在那两个州，法律只对患有某种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.
在那所著名的私立学校里所感受到的“圣洁之美”给韦德人生带来的影响却与那些传统方式大不相同。韦德的兴趣最终让他先后成了《自然》和《纽约时报》的科学记者。

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.
但这似乎非常地遥不可及，不是吗，若以他所谈灵魂的正义种类看来,那包含了，在我们可能会称之为,理性自治里,或自控,当中理性,控制激情与渴求。
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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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