咫尺天涯 meaning in English
(又作“咫尺千里) a short distance away, and yet poles apart -- to see little of each other though living nearby; a panorama of one-thousand li on a one-chi scroll; it looks as if it were as far as the horizon, although it is but one foot's distance away.; rich content within a small compass; so near yet so far
Examples
- The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can ‘ t have them
失去一个人最糟糕的方式是咫尺天涯（做人最悲哀的事情是你操她的时候她性幻想别人） 。 - So with the three passengers shut up i the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail - coach ; the were mysteries to one another , as complete as if each ha been in his own coach and six , or his own coach and sixty , with the breadth of a county between him and the next
因此关在那颠簸的老邮车的狭小天地里的三个乘客彼此都是奥秘，跟各自坐在自己的六马大车或是六十马大车里的大员一样，彼此总是咫尺天涯，奥妙莫测。