stand-offish

stand-of·fish, standoffish /ˌstænd ˈɒfɪʃ $ -ˈɒːf-/ adjectiveadj informal

PROUDrather unfriendly and formal 不友好的；冷淡的 SYN aloof

She was cold and stand-offish.

她态度冷漠，不甚友好。

—stand-offishly adverbadv

—stand-offishness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

stand-offish• We sociologists have had good reason to be stand-offish.• You're not so stand-offish after all.• Without wishing to be over-familiar but not to be stand-offish either, I put one hand on her shoulder.• Would he think her very rude and stand-offish now?• Many may interpret such a self-centred approach as selfish or stand-offish - that is too bad.

单词	stand-offish
释义	stand-offish stand-of·fish, standoffish /ˌstænd ˈɒfɪʃ $ -ˈɒːf-/ adjectiveadj informal PROUDrather unfriendly and formal 不友好的；冷淡的 SYN aloof She was cold and stand-offish. 她态度冷漠，不甚友好。 —stand-offishly adverbadv —stand-offishness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus stand-offish• We sociologists have had good reason to be stand-offish.• You're not so stand-offish after all.• Without wishing to be over-familiar but not to be stand-offish either, I put one hand on her shoulder.• Would he think her very rude and stand-offish now?• Many may interpret such a self-centred approach as selfish or stand-offish - that is too bad.
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