standoffishness
基本解释
- n. 冷淡，不友善
英汉例句
- She simply, newly, had the imperial standoffishness that I realized only then I had always associated with the dead.
她的裝扮既簡樸又新穎，就在這時我才意識到我縂是將她那高貴的冷靜與死人聯系在一起。 - A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat's legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority.
比如貓對其手掌的控制霛活度要比狗強很多，所以很多貓的愛好者會認爲這是貓比狗聰明的躰現。 - But the Pentagon's standoffishness towards the Chinese military has not been helping.
ECONOMIST: Defence in East Asia - German standoffishness toward the EU is now based in law: a 2009 ruling by Germany's Constitutional Court allowed it to ratify the Lisbon treaty but limited further transfers of power to Brussels.
ECONOMIST: Germany's role in the world - The faults that turned her colleagues in government and the public against her — standoffishness, self-aggrandizement, a tendency to respond to every criticism with spin and wagon-circling, a pattern of rewarding loyalty rather than competence — were all on display during her tenure at Hearst for anyone who was looking.
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