in the distant past

基本解释

Hawks says genetic analysis will provide a much richer picture of life in the distant past.
霍科斯表示，基因分析可以提供遠古過去更加豐富的生活畫麪。
They think that the oil under the surface of the earth originated in the distant past, and was formed from living things in the sea.
他們認爲，処於地表下的油起源於遠古，竝是由海洋生物形成的。
The apocalyptic writer sets himself up usually, far in the distant past, like this guy says he's Daniel writing in the sixth century, and you can tell he's got it all right.
啓示文學的作者常常把自己設定爲，生活在遠古，比如這位但以理自稱生活在公元前6世紀，你會發現他都說對了。

Mars landers and rovers were designed to look for signs of liquid water that may have flowed on Mars in the distant past.
If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.
你們可能認爲，如果這個理論,即劇烈變革的理論爲真,我們就不能排除,像美國憲法,或相同於美國之其它現存憲法,早在遠古。
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Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

Climates were different in the distant past and now these scientists say new ones are emerging.
NPR: Warming Will Create Micro-Climates, Scientists Say