This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Okay, what professors to get, which professor to stay away from,

好吧，选什么样的教授，跟哪个教授要保持距离，

与护理专业的学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They come so instinctively and easily it's difficult, and sort of unnatural, to step back and explore them scientifically but if we're going to be scientists and look at the mind from a scientific perspective we have to get a sort of distance from ourselves and ask questions that other people would not normally think to ask.

他们来得如此本能，容易,这是困难的，有某种超自然韵味，退后，从科学角度研究他们,但如果我们打算成为科学家,从科学角度,看待心理,我们需同我们自身保持某种距离,问问题,问其他人通常不想问的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选