Aloof

(adj.) remote in manner; 'stood apart with aloof dignity'; 'a distant smile'; 'he was upstage with strangers' .

(adv.) in an aloof manner; 'the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough'.

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• The two valets sat aloof superciliously. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In Great Britain the king stood aloof. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now I see why them men yonder held aloof from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am sure that though Graham stood aloof, he listened too: his hearing as well as his vision was very fine, quick, discriminating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Thus, for the second time, did Mr. Pickwick's innate good-feeling involve him in an enterprise from which he would most willingly have stood aloof. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was aloof and white, and somehow evanescent. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Gudrun stood aloof looking at them with large dark eyes of resentment, suspended for a few moments. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Mr Gowan stood aloof with his cigar and pencil, but Mr Blandois was on the spot to pay his respects to the ladies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The room in which he sat was very sacred ground to her; she seldom intruded on it; and to-night she kept aloof till the bell rang for prayers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The doctors know that he is best with her, and when not actively engaged about him, stand aloof. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Rosamond obeyed him, and he took her on his knee, but in her secret soul she was utterly aloof from him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• How far did they stand aloof from each other, and how far did they intermingle? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She held herself aloof from me as if she had been a queen, and I her humble, unwashed vassal. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But for an active being, a being who partakes of the consequences instead of standing aloof from them, there is at the same time a personal response. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There were those who gathered about Carthoris and myself whenever the opportunity presented, while about an equal number held aloof from us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Mrs. Peniston disliked scenes, and her determination to avoid them had always led her to hold herself aloof from the details of Lily's life. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Something was keeping their minds aloof, and each was left to conjecture what was in the other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Bar tendered the weather, as a subject neatly aloof from official reserve, for the Foreman's consideration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He glanced swiftly from one to the other of the strangers, and held himself aloof. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She had prefigured to herself, even with exaggeration, the disgust of her friends, and she had even feared that Celia might be kept aloof from her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She meted out a wide space between us, and kept me aloof by the reserved gesture, the rare and alienated glance, the word calmly civil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was now beginning to find out what that cleverness was--what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They were not, however, the first to stand aloof. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Though indeed he began to remember, when he got to this, even _he_ did not mistrust it; he had only happened to keep aloof from it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Thereafter Robespierre displayed a disposition to brood aloof from affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr. Ramsden, a stout, puffy gentleman, as large in person as he was in property, held aloof from the consequent commotion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Christian alone stood aloof, uneasily rocking himself as he murmured, They ought not to do it--how the vlankers do fly! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was perhaps her very manner of holding herself aloof that appealed to his collector's passion for the rare and unattainable. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Or is it an aloof thing, a problem only for the purposes of conveying instruction in some school topic? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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