1. In the distant past, large herbivores like mastodons dispersed maclura seeds, each the size of an orange in their droppings. 在遥远的过去，像乳齿象这样的大型食草动物播撒着桑橙属植物的种子，在它们的粪便中，每个种子都像橙子那么大。
2. It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past. 人们曾经认为，蚂蚁培育的真菌是它们繁殖的一种单一品种，自远古时期以来基本上没有改变。
3. Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past, but gremlins were born in the 20th century. 精灵、小妖精和侏儒似乎是远古时代永恒的产物，但小妖精诞生于20世纪。
4. It happened in the distant past. 此事发生在遥远的过去。
5. That bias now is in the distant past. 现在这种偏见已经成为遥远的过去。
