over a great distance
Long distance, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à NL à Ti á OTI á o, interpretation is to describe the distance. It comes from Volume 4 of Guangyang Zaji by Liu Xianting in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The fourth volume of Guangyang miscellany written by Liu Xianting in Qing Dynasty: "women's family is poor, the population is large, and they are far away. Why should they be so poor?"
Idiom usage
Chinese tea seeds, with a green dream, go to Africa. Li Ying's poem tea. In Tang Shaoyi, it's hard to feel that she has come all the way home empty handed. Gao Yang's complete biography of Cixi 106
Analysis of Idioms
A thousand miles away
Chinese PinYin : wàn lǐ tiáo tiáo
over a great distance
a grieving maid and a desolate man -- a woman without a husband and a man without a wife. yuàn nǚ kuàng fū
he marshalled his hosts and addressed them. chén shī jǖ lǚ
advance gradually and entrench oneself at every step. bù bù wéi yíng