Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others.

此外，我们倾向于认为自己是友好的，但我们更喜欢与他人保持至少3英尺或一臂远的距离。

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She turns from the window, PAWS through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm's length like a day-old fish.

她离开窗口，扒拉着地板上的一堆报纸，找出《国际先驱论坛报》，然后伸直手臂，好像拿放了一天的鱼似的拿着它。

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Contacts conducted at arm's length for five years should suddenly turn into such an ostentatious embrace.

五年来保持的不过分亲密的接触现在突然变成如此公开炫耀的拥抱。

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And those who watch the matches on television (whence arrives much of Wimbledon's income) share at an electronic arm's length the added drama of the best game in the world being played at the best place in the world to play it.

ECONOMIST: Ball babes

In a unique economic experiment, 16 countries with a combined population of 329m have handed over monetary sovereignty to an entity at arm's length from national politics: the European Central Bank (ECB).

ECONOMIST: Holding together

It says Volvo will be run as an autonomous entity, headquartered in Sweden, at arm's length from Geely's manufacturing operations in China.

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