His tired eyes examine the envelopes at arm \ 's length.

他用疲惫的眼神检查手边的信封，没有期待中的贺卡。

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As soon as a user demotes a "friend" from intimate to arm 's-length in his Facebook Settings, this will also take effect on other sites.

一个用户一旦在其Facebook设定中把一个朋友的关系从“亲密”降为“保持距离”时，这将同步适用至其它网站。

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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.

这是由对怀疑论或理论持怀疑态度的人提出来的问题,也是我们要认真探讨的，但是我们还会回来继续讨论，因为对我而言，我们需要和这个问题保持一定距离。

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Executive compensation is not the result of arm's length negotiations.

行政赔偿,也不是公平磋商的结果。

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However, the Prime Minister's arm's length attitude to managing Northern Ireland isn't likely to change, and Ms Villiers will soon discover that when it comes to juggling issues like parades or dealing with the past, it's hard to keep all sides happy and easy to tread on someone's toe.

BBC: What Theresa Villiers will soon discover

Yet, as the Obama administration ramped up the war, it kept the country's president at arm's length, or worse.

WSJ: Hamid Karzai: Our Man in Kabul?

Instead, they prefer to keep America's aspiring citizens at arm's length and make sure their fingerprints are taken.

ECONOMIST: Immigration