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，基因分析可以提供远古过去更加丰富的生活画面。
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.
他们认为，处于地表下的油起源于远古，并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.
启示文学的作者常常把自己设定为，生活在远古，比如这位但以理自称生活在公元前6世纪，你会发现他都说对了。

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.
你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。
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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