The noise, far from abating, continued to increase.

那声音不但毫未停止，反而增大了。

【解脱】

英文説的“far from”，意爲“not at all”，加重時说“so far from”。这成语中的“far”，原是表示距离的，转而成爲比喻的用法，具有「遠未」，「絕非」之意。有時在“from”後接上一个形容詞，也可视为省去了動名詞“being”的说法，例如He is far from happy.即“from being happy”之略。此外“from”後接名詞或代名詞，也是常有的事，如 It is far from the truth.(遠非眞實。)a house far from the town.(遠离城市的屋子。）還有成语的“far from it”(决無其事；一點也不)，也就是英文“not in the least”的意思。例如：“Mr. Dickson, you say, is not, strictly speaking, handsome!" "Handsome! Oh no; far from it. -certainly plain”.(Jane Austen) (「你說狄克遜先生，严格地講並不漂亮！」「漂亮！啊，不，一點也不——他确是長得很平凡的呀。）最後说的是「其貌不揚」的婉說法。

【举例】

Far from reading the letter, he did not open it.

哪裏談得上看信，他拆都没有拆。

It was far from being good.

一點也不好。

I am far from blaming him.=I do not blame him at all.

我一點也不怪他。

His explanation is far from (being) satisfactory.

他的說明決不能令人满意。

The room was far from comfortable.

这房间一点也不舒服。

It's far from well. (=not at all well; a long way from being well.)

这個一点也不好。

He is far from well.

他一點也不健康。

His style is far from perfect.

一點都不完善。

I am far from content.

決非满意。

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