standoffishness

基本解釋

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(rèn)為這是貓比狗聰明的體現(xiàn)。

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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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