kept at arm s length; keep at arm s length ;keep at a distance
保持一定距离
属类:化学及生命科学-化学-
keep at arm s length ; kept at a distance
保持一定距离(使...不与...亲近)
属类:IT行业-计算机术语
keep at arm s length ;keep at a distance;kept at a distance
使...不与...亲近
属类:化学及生命科学-化学
英语成语:keep at arm’s length, to
1.To keep one a certain distance away, either physical or figurative, in order to afford a level of safety or security or to prevent intimacy. My daughter likes to watch me cook, but I make sure to keep her at arm’s length so she doesn’t get close to anything hot.
John always keeps his friends at arm’s length, so that no one gets close enough to hurt his feelings.
机译:约翰总是和朋友们保持一定距离,这样就不会有人靠近他而伤害他的感情。
2.To avoid familiarity, to keep someone at a distance. This expression, with its inevitable image of extending one’s arm to push someone away, has long been used figuratively to signify distancing oneself from a problem, group, political stand, and so forth. In the sixteenth century it was put as at arm’s end, as Sir Philip Sidney had it in Arcadia (1580), but by the mid-seventeenth century it began to appear as at arm’s length.