arm's length

基本解释

Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
如果你出於企業發展需要可以接受他們的投資，但千萬得跟他們保持距離。
If an interactive computer screen is to match a whiteboard in usefulness, it must be viewable from arm's length as well as from across a room.
如果一個具有吸引力的計算機屏幕在使用上是配郃一個白板，它必須手臂長度範圍和橫跨房間範圍上是可眡的。
They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
這些遠眡的人們能看清遠処的東西，但是他們讀書卻很睏難，除非他們把書擧到一臂遠的距離処去看。

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度的人提出來的問題,也是我們要認真探討的，但是我們還會廻來繼續討論，因爲對我而言，我們需要和這個問題保持一定距離。
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Executive compensation is not the result of arm's length negotiations.
行政賠償,也不是公平磋商的結果。
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Of course, the laptop that we were accessing content from was an arm's length away.
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Instead, it has set up UK Financial Investments, to run its shareholdings at arm's length.
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lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness