| 词组 | aloof |
| 释义 | aloof The usual preposition following aloof is from: • ... the Peels were always quite aloof from the ordinary social life of the town —Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives'Tale, 1908 • He stood aloof from worldly success —John Buchan, Pilgrim's Way, 1940 • ... remain aloof from the war —Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions, 1948 • ... morbidly aloof from reality —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 • I felt curiously aloof from my own self —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1958 • ... remain resolutely aloof from the Vietnam war — Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 28 June 1975 Occasionally to is used: • ... the United States remained coldly aloof to the suggestion—Collier's Year Book, 1949 • ... respectful but aloof to Marx, Engels, and Lenin —Lucien Price, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, 1954 Other prepositions may be used to indicate somewhat different relationships: • He is terse, cool-headed in a crisis, inclined to be aloof with strangers —Tris Coffin, Nation's Business, April 1954 • ... holding herself aloof in chosen loneliness of passion —Paul Elmer More, Selected Shelburne Essays, 1921 |
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