at arm's length

基本解释

• 疏远；在手臂伸得到的地方

英汉例句

双语例句

• Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
  如果你出于企业发展需要可以接受他们的投资，但千万得跟他们保持距离。
• They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
  这些远视的人们能看清远处的东西，但是他们读书却很困难，除非他们把书举到一臂远的距离处去看。
• 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.
  镜片可以在穿戴者的眼前显示出图像，这些图像有如浮现在空气中，就像在一臂距离外放置的一台19寸电视。

原声例句

• 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.
  这是由对怀疑论或理论持怀疑态度的人提出来的问题,也是我们要认真探讨的，但是我们还会回来继续讨论，因为对我而言，我们需要和这个问题保持一定距离。
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权威例句

• 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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词组短语

短语

• at arm 's length 敬而远之;保持安全距离
• at an arm 's length 保持一定距离
• work at arm 's length 在不利的条件下工作;干活很吃力;笨手笨脚
• 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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