standoffishness

常見例句

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總是將她那高貴的冷靜與死人聯(lián)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靈活度要比狗強很多，所以很多貓的愛好者會認為這是貓比狗聰明的體現(xiàn)。

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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