It was only eight blocks from Monta Loma Elementary, but in many ways it was a world apart, located in a neighborhood filled with ethnic gangs.

这所学校离原来的蒙塔·洛马小学不过八条街之隔，但在很多方面这里就像另一个世界，这所学校地处一个充斥着少数族裔帮派的社区。

A great icy wave of silence seemed to have swept round them both, shutting them out, in a world apart, from the life and movement of the street.

一股巨大的寂静冰冷的浪潮似乎席卷了他们两人，将他们拒之门外，置身于一个与街道的生活和运动截然不同的世界。

The things you probably think of as " science" – like biology, or physics, or chemistry – can seem a world apart from sociology and the concepts we’ve introduced so far.

你可能认为是“科学”的东西——比如生物学、物理学或化学——可能看起来与社会学和我们迄今为止介绍的概念不同。