单词 | to stand aloof |
释义 | > as lemmasto stand (or keep, hold, etc.) aloof (from) 3. figurative. Frequently with from. Apart from another person or group (with respect to one's attitudes, actions, or interests), usually suggesting a lack of sympathy or common ground. Also: having a conspicuous lack of involvement in a certain situation. Also in extended use, with reference to organizations, attitudes, etc. Usually in to stand (or keep, hold, etc.) aloof (from). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > do nothing [verb (intransitive)] > take no part in action to stand bya1398 to stand (or keep, hold, etc.) aloof (from)1546 to sit back1869 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue sig. Aivv What helpth in ye whole To haste or hang a loofe, happy man, happy dole. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 449 [Lying]..maketh them hang aloofe, suspect, and be strange one to an other. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 193 I'le stand aloofe, And will no reconcilement. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 59 God stood not, though he seemed to stand, aloof. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 132 We felt for them as men; but we kept aloof from them. View more context for this quotation 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xliii. 287 Sparta it seems kept aloof from this struggle. 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 635 The English Puritans held aloof at this time from the poor sectaries. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. xiii. 236 Peter was not the man to stand coldly aloof. 1958 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples IV. xx. 283 Parnell stood aloof from these tumults. 1977 J. Carey Thackeray i. 23 Cool reason stood aloof from the popular passions. 1997 W. Dalrymple From Holy Mountain (1998) iv. 210 Fisk..had always tended to keep aloof from his journalistic colleagues. < as lemmas |
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