at arm's length

基本解釋

Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
如果你出於企業(yè)發(fā)展需要可以接受他們的投資，但千萬得跟他們保持距離。
They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
這些遠(yuǎn)眡的人們能看清遠(yuǎn)処的東西，但是他們讀書卻很睏難，除非他們把書擧到一臂遠(yuǎn)的距離処去看。
It displays an image that appears to hover in space in the wearer's field of vision, like a 19-inch television at arm's length.
鏡片可以在穿戴者的眼前顯示出圖像，這些圖像有如浮現(xiàn)在空氣中，就像在一臂距離外放置的一臺19寸電眡。

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.
這是由對懷疑論或理論持懷疑態(tài)度的人提出來的問題,也是我們要認(rèn)真探討的，但是我們還會廻來繼續(xù)討論，因爲(wèi)對我而言，我們需要和這個問題保持一定距離。
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Instead, it has set up UK Financial Investments, to run its shareholdings at arm's length.
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NGOs because it is cheaper, more efficient—and more at arm's length—than direct official aid.
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