aloof
aloof
adjective
aloofly
adverb
aloofness
noun
语源
adjective
- not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant
不友好的，不友善的；冷淡的，疏远的
they were courteous but faintly aloof.
他们彬彬有礼但是却有点冷淡。
an aloof and somewhat austere figure.
一位冷漠又有些冷峻的人物。
■conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste
卓然事外的，漠然的
he stayed aloof from the bickering.
他对口角漠然处之。
aloofly
adverb
aloofness
noun
语源
- mid 16th cent.: from a-(expressing direction) + luffThe term was originally an adverb in nautical use, meaning 'away and to windward!', i.e. with the ship's head kept close to the wind away from a lee shore etc. towards which it might drift. From this arose the sense 'at a distance'
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