Usage examples of "lejano" in Spanish with translation to English

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Tengo que recorrer todo el camino desde un barrio lejano. I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.
Él y yo somos de un país lejano. He and me are from a far country.
Se quedó huérfano a los tres años, y fue criado por un pariente lejano. An orphan at three, he was brought up by a distant relative.
Vale más un buen vecino que un amigo lejano. A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
Con el telescopio se pueden ver objetos lejanos. We can see distant objects with a telescope.
Los miembros de su tripulación se quejaban a menudo de que Cristóbal Colón acaparaba la conexión Wi-fi de su embarcación para jugar a juegos en línea, pero él negaba estas acusaciones con indignación, alegando que estaba buscando tierras lejanas que todavía no hubieran sido descubiertas. His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
En los días nublados puedes oír los sonidos lejanos mejor que con un buen tiempo. On cloudy days, you can hear distant sounds better than in clear weather.
La central eléctrica manda electricidad hasta un distrito lejano. The power plant supplies the remote district with electricity.
En un universo muy, muy lejano donde todo lo que se visualiza se hace realidad, un novato intentó visualizar un objeto de cuatro dimensiones, sólo para terminar visualizando un objeto con un infinito número de dimensiones que mandó toda nuestra existencia a la desorganización, acabando de ese modo con el universo que conocemos. In a far, far away universe where whatever is visualized becomes real, a noob tried to visualize a four dimensional object only to end up visualizing an object with an infinite number of dimensions that sent our entire existence into disarray thereby ending the universe as we know it.
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