afar

Voices came from afar.; Voices were heard in the distance.

远处传来人声。

"Oh, grandfather," she cried from afar, "won´t you come with us to the pasture tomorrow?"

“噢，爷爷，”她从远处叫道，“你明天不和我们一起去牧场吗？”

The children, however, saw from afar that the three servants were coming, and the cook waddling after them.

然而，孩子们远远地看见三个仆人来了，厨子步履蹒跚地跟在他们后面。

Seen from afar, its towering buildings beckon the visitor in.

远远望去，它的高耸建筑就像在召唤游客。

Scientists have dated sharp-edged flakes of stone found in the fine-grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago.

科学家们已经确定，在埃塞俄比亚阿法尔地区干燥河床的细颗粒沉积物中发现的具有锋利边缘的石片存在于252万至260万年前。