arm's length

基本解釋

Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
如果你出于企業(yè)發(fā)展需要可以接受他們的投資，但千萬得跟他們保持距離。
If an interactive computer screen is to match a whiteboard in usefulness, it must be viewable from arm's length as well as from across a room.
如果一個(gè)具有吸引力的計(jì)算機(jī)屏幕在使用上是配合一個(gè)白板，它必須手臂長度范圍和橫跨房間范圍上是可視的。
They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
這些遠(yuǎn)視的人們能看清遠(yuǎn)處的東西，但是他們讀書卻很困難，除非他們把書舉到一臂遠(yuǎn)的距離處去看。

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.
這是由對(duì)懷疑論或理論持懷疑態(tài)度的人提出來的問題,也是我們要認(rèn)真探討的，但是我們還會(huì)回來繼續(xù)討論，因?yàn)閷?duì)我而言，我們需要和這個(gè)問題保持一定距離。
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Executive compensation is not the result of arm's length negotiations.
行政賠償,也不是公平磋商的結(jié)果。
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Of course, the laptop that we were accessing content from was an arm's length away.
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Instead, it has set up UK Financial Investments, to run its shareholdings at arm's length.
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lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness