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 remote [rɪ'mot]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 遥远的, 偏僻的, 疏远的, 微少的

[计] 远程, 远程访问实用程序




    remote
    [ noun ]
    1. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance

    2. <noun.artifact>
      he lost the remote for his TV
    [ adj ]
    1. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

    2. <adj.all>
      a distant cousin
      a remote relative
      a distant likeness
      considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
    3. located far away spatially

    4. <adj.all>
      distant lands
      remote stars
    5. very unlikely

    6. <adj.all>
      an outside chance
      a remote possibility
      a remote contingency
    7. separate or apart in time

    8. <adj.all>
      distant events
      the remote past or future
    9. inaccessible and sparsely populated

    10. <adj.all>


    Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. {Remoter} (-?r);
    superl. {Remotest}.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to
    remove. See {Remove}.]
    1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; --
    said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages;
    remote lands.

    Places remote enough are in Bohemia. --Shak.

    Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
    --Parnell.

    2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related;
    -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
    (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these
    propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
    --Locke.
    (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection
    or consanguinity.
    (c) Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places
    itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from,
    all bodies.'' --Locke.
    (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
    ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
    --Granville.
    (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

    3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
    -- {Re*mote"ly}, adv. -- {Re*mote"ness}, n.

    1. The lumbering Japan Air Lines 747 drones over bustling Grant County Mall on its landing approach, the most dramatic sign that this remote little town has survived and prospered since Larson Air Force Base closed in 1966.
    2. He said the policy of moving Iraqis from remote villages to larger towns is not limited to Kurdistan.
    3. Chinese telephone operators often do not connect calls to the remote Himalayan region.
    4. The state accused the three men of setting off a car bomb with a remote control device outside a house owned by the African National Congress in Bulawayo on Jan. 12, killing an unemployed Zambian who helped with the attack.
    5. Right now, I've got my feet up on the ottoman, and my remote control set to zap.
    6. The Postal Service hopes remote encoding will help the service fully automate mail processing by 1995.
    7. He said he hoped that the loans would be agreed in the next fortnight and insisted that a levy on farmers was 'very remote'.
    8. The attack occurred Monday in a remote area of Zelaya province, 250 miles northeast of Managua, as Sister Courtney and three other church workers drove in a church pickup truck from the town of Rosita to Puerto Cabezas.
    9. They also claim their land is being overrun by hordes of Chinese, sent in from Beijing to Sinicize the remote region.
    10. In defending the cuts, the department has pointed to little-used flights that receive subsidies in remote areas.
    11. From remote island outposts to the crowded streets of London, New York, Moscow and Hong Kong, young and old will don "I Changed the World" T-shirts for an enlarged rerun of Sport Aid '86.
    12. Officials in Nucla and Naturita, in a remote corner of southwest Colorado, said they hoped to make the shoot an annual affair.
    13. Of the hundreds of American companies that have invested at least $3.5 billion in China since relations were normalized, many withdrew employees from Beijing but fewer left sites more remote from the violence.
    14. At least 30 gold miners died when a 200-foot wall of mud surrounding their excavation site collapsed and buried them in the remote Amazon jungle, authorities said.
    15. She uses her Foncard at a remote call-box, muttering to herself: 'Is this a great country, or what?'
    16. The unlikely pair has drawn crowds at each of the four stops on the ferry's 12-mile-long route in the beautiful and remote fiord south of the town of Aalesund.
    17. The site is so remote that access to any mine development would have be up a couple of rivers, and then via some newly-constructed road link.
    18. The discovery of survivors on remote islands lifted the hopes of rescue workers, who have found the bodies of at least 32 people. Other reports put the death toll at 26.
    19. April 25 _ A U.S. military force flies to a remote Iranian desert in hopes of rescuing the hostages, but the attempt is aborted when three helicopters fail.
    20. In remote southern parts, nomads traveled long distances to cast their ballots.
    21. In an era of communication conglomerates and impersonal service, the family-run Calaveras Telephone Co. gives residents of this remote cattle-ranching community in the Sierra foothills a personal touch.
    22. As a result, they have become just as remote and inflexible as the large, centralised IT departments which they replaced. This inflexibility and the growth of PC use is making some companies rethink the way they organise IT.
    23. National Broadcasting Radio said geologists expect more landslides that could lead to a higher death toll in remote Morobe Province, about 185 miles north of Port Moresby, the capital.
    24. With a foothold on the high ground, room to maneuver, and remote sensing, Israel could ensure that the first tank to cross the Jordan would also be the last.
    25. Others dig, but in remote sites or at the edges of villages whose high birth rates demand the use of all available land, whether or not history lies beneath it.
    26. A political arrangement that would bring this remote Western Pacific archipelago more self-government and nearly $500 million in U.S. aid headed for defeat today at the hands of the voters.
    27. Although the event itself was remote from the market, one analyst said that when in a down mood, investors are likely to focus on any potential problem or piece of negative news.
    28. The burning wreckage of a missing commuter plane with 20 people aboard was sighted in a remote valley on the island of Molokai just before dawn Sunday, a fire department official said.
    29. The information super-highway could be used to widen the gap between rich and poor, between the affluent urban areas and remote village communities.
    30. Life Ministry, a missionary organization that operates in remote parts of Kenya, uses the aircraft to transport supplies to its workers, Chynoweth said.
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