0 far away in distance or time, or not closely related -- 远的；遥远的；久远的；关系疏远的
remote galaxies 遥远的星系
It happened in the remote past, so no one worries about it any more. 这件事发生在很久很久以前了，所以没有人再为此担心。
They take little interest in a conflict far from their homes and remote from their everyday problems. 这是一场远在他们家乡千里之外的冲突，和他们每天遇到的问题也毫不沾边，他们对其不怎么感兴趣。
This enables you to get remote access to your email. 这让你可以远程使用你的电子邮箱。
a remote server 远程服务器
1 slight -- 绝少的；微小的；微乎其微的
a remote possibility 微乎其微的可能性
The chances of a visit by Martians to Earth are remote. 火星人访问地球的可能性微乎其微。
2 not very friendly or showing little interest in other people -- 不友好的；冷漠的；孤高的
3 a remote control -- （同 remote control）
They live in a remote corner of Scotland, miles from the nearest shop.
People in the remote mountain villages still cleave to their old traditions.
These remote islands are inhabited only by birds and small animals.
They lived in a remote cottage set high on a woody hillside.
He cast his readers not as colleagues in an emerging philosophical community, but as remote, credit-giving consumers.
It aggressively exploits the parallelism made possible by sending requests to multiple remote data sources simultaneously and by scheduling tasks to run on multiple processors.
To many, the theoretical expositions of construct validity and validation are too abstract and remote from the reality of test development and use.
