at arm's length

基本解釋

• 疏遠；在手臂伸得到的地方

英漢例句

雙語例句

• Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
  如果你出于企業(yè)發(fā)展需要可以接受他們的投資，但千萬得跟他們保持距離。
• They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
  這些遠視的人們能看清遠處的東西，但是他們讀書卻很困難，除非他們把書舉到一臂遠的距離處去看。
• It displays an image that appears to hover in space in the wearer's field of vision, like a 19-inch television at arm's length.
  鏡片可以在穿戴者的眼前顯示出圖像，這些圖像有如浮現(xiàn)在空氣中，就像在一臂距離外放置的一臺19寸電視。

原聲例句

• Well, this is the question raised by the skeptic about skepticism or about theory and it's one that we're going to take rather seriously, but we're going to come back to it because there are ways, it seems to me, of keeping this question at arm's length.
  這是由對懷疑論或理論持懷疑態(tài)度的人提出來的問題,也是我們要認真探討的，但是我們還會回來繼續(xù)討論，因為對我而言，我們需要和這個問題保持一定距離。
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權威例句

• Instead, it has set up UK Financial Investments, to run its shareholdings at arm's length.
  ECONOMIST: How hard should the state lean on banks to lend?
• NGOs because it is cheaper, more efficient—and more at arm's length—than direct official aid.
  ECONOMIST: Sins of the secular missionaries The

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詞組短語

短語

• at arm 's length 敬而遠之;保持安全距離
• at an arm 's length 保持一定距離
• work at arm 's length 在不利的條件下工作;干活很吃力;笨手笨腳
• hold sth at arm 's length 伸直胳膊握住某物
• is at arm 's length 在伸臂可及之外

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