英语释义

1. very different from (something or someone)
The movie is a far cry from the book. He's a far cry from the idealistic young writer he once was.

片语

a a far cry from相距甚远

A Far Cry From Here唱片名

is a far cry from是相距甚远

A Far Cry from Dead唱片名

be a far cry from与……相差甚远

英汉例句

• 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.

  在那所着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。

• but this dramatic lesson is a far cry from my current temple-associated practice.

  但是当年这戏剧性的一课与我目前所从事的太阳穴临床实践相去甚远。

• though a far cry from the nexus-6 models of dick’s prolific imagination, personal robots seem to be shrugging off their science-fiction trappings and becoming very much a technological reality.

  虽然与迪克多产的幻想作品中的纳克斯-6型差距很大，但个人机器人似乎正在摆脱它们的科幻困境，成为实实在在的技术现实。

• men also find their other half a far cry from their idea of perfection, according to a survey of 100 couples by teams from sheffield university and the university of montpellier in france.

  而谢菲尔德大学和法国蒙彼利埃大学的研究团队调查了100对夫妇后发现，男人们最终的配偶也与他们心中的完美形象相去甚远。

• mr meshal was said to have fumed at the sight of a video that showed girls and boys cavorting in the resort’s pools, a far cry from the 「resistance culture」 he would like to foster.

  据说，当马沙尔在录像里看到一群年轻男女还在此地的游泳池中嬉戏时，怒火中烧。 毕竟这与他所希望此地形成的「抵抗性文化」相去甚远。

• the forlorn scene on a recent monday afternoon is a far cry from the images of the 2008 olympic games playing out on giant screens 100m above the tourists「 heads.

  这一幕发生在最近某个周一下午的荒凉景象，与游客们头上100米高处巨大显示屏上2008年奥运会赛场的画面截然不同。

• yet that is a far cry from saying that central banks need to shift their attention to inflation.

  然而，那远远不是说央行们需要将它们的注意力转移到通货膨胀上来。

• given that current ms treatments are a far cry from a cure and do not work for everyone, some people with ms feel there is no harm in trying something that might improve their quality of life.

  假设目前的医学治疗还远未达到治愈疾病的水準，并且，尚不是对每个人都有效，那么，一些医患就会认为，改进生命质量的一些尝试可能是无害的。

• brazil and mexico both have deficits of less than 2% of gdp, a far cry from the fiscal laxness of a few years ago.

  巴西和墨西哥的赤字不到gdp的2%，比起短短几年前极度恶化的财政状况，这已经是相当大的进步了。

• similar 「data utilities」 are business as usual in particle physics and seismology, but they are a far cry from the way small teams of observers have divided up telescope time in the past.

  类似的「数据公共事业」在粒子物理学与地震学领域也一样常见，只不过他们与过去几个小型观察队就已经瓜分了望远镜的使用时间的情况有了天壤之别。

• goodor bad, these temporary exhibits in ritzy mansions in central london’s mostexpensive neighborhoods, are a far cry from the gritty underground arthappenings of earlier alternative venues.

  这些伦敦中心豪华宅邸里的展览，毗邻着伦敦价格最高昂的地区，与稍早一些的另类街区里，粗糙的地下艺术品交易完全不同。

• this is a far cry from mr mugabe’s ferocious insistence on 51% of all mid-sized companies and all land going willy-nilly to blacks.

  这和穆加贝先生兇残地主张不管愿意与否，将所有中型企业51%的股权和所有的土地都交给黑人的做法相距甚远。

• a far cry from the modern rock concert, but still, enough to get the tribe on their feet – dancing and chanting around the campfire.

  现代摇滚音乐会里时不时传出一阵阵的呼喊声。但是他们还是紧随着先人的脚步--围着篝火跳舞唱歌。

• some items, he regrets, such as river turtle, are hard to find today, but modern markets are a far cry from the scarcity-plagued ration-card days he used to know.

  有时，他也会为一些原料现在很难找到而痛惜，比如甲鱼。但更多时候他清楚，现在的市场远胜于过去时常被短缺所困扰的配给制度。

• siddiqui」s best time for the 100m is 11.81 seconds, a pakistani record she set in april, and 24.36 seconds in the 200m which are both a far cry from top international standards.

  西迪基100米短跑的最好成绩是11.81秒，这也是她于今年四月创下的巴基斯坦全国新记录，她200米短跑的最好成绩是24.36秒，两个项目的成绩都远不及世界顶级水平。

• it「s a far cry from when he first joined the firm as a mail clerk.

  和他刚到公司来当一名管理信件的职员的时候相比，那简直是相差太远了。

• this is a pretty basic set of widgets, and a far cry from the variety of widgets you get with commercial systems, but it」s enough for demonstration purposes.

  这是非常基本的一组小部件，与商业系统中多种多样的小部件区别很大，但能够满足演示的目的。

• this represents a far cry from early diversification strategies that typically comprised cash, equities and bonds, possibly with a geographical element.

  这代表了早期多样化策略的一种遥远呼声，这些策略一般包括现金、股票和债券，也许还有地理学因素。

• this, i knew, would be a far cry from my life at google.

  我知道，这跟我在谷歌公司的生活相去甚远。

• human subjects, or countertops, in labs are cleaned first, then covered on the surface with a target bug. that is a far cry from a typical kitchen or a pair of grimy hands.

  接受测试的人体或器具都事先经过消毒，然后在表面覆盖上要测试的病菌，跟真实的厨房环境或一双脏兮兮的手相去甚远。

• helen zille, the da’s leader, insists that voters want south african politics to be 「an open contest of ideas and values」, rather than driven by race: a fine aspiration but a far cry from reality.

  民主联盟党的主席凯伦?希利强调，选民们希望南非政坛大选争的是价值观和思想，而不是种族问题，然而，这只是人们美好的想象，与现实相距甚远。

• all of this is a far cry from last year when ak heralded its so-called kurdish 「opening」.

  这一切沖突与一年前大相径庭，那时ak提出了它所谓的库尔德「倡议」。

• it was a civil, correct, exchange of property but a far cry from the warmth and passions - quickly followed by bloodshed - that accompanied britain「s exit from india.

  这是一场文明体面的政权交换，它远离了狂热，因此没有像印度在英国退出之后那样变成一场流血沖突。

• that is still a far cry from the cataclysm of 1998, when the rupiah collapsed and the economy shrank by 13.1%.

  这与1998年的大灾难仍然不可同日而语。当时印尼盾的币值暴跌而印尼经济萎缩高达13.1%。

• 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。