這些形容詞都可以形容情感上是,或看上去是與其它人有距離的人。Aloof應(yīng)用于在禮儀或興趣上疏遠(yuǎn)他人的人,比如不愿意與他們認(rèn)為智力或交際次一等的人交往,或是出于習(xí)慣性的害羞或習(xí)性?!緎he now holds herself aloof from society,preferring to spend her days and nights dwelling on her memories; He always affected a grand ,aloof manner with us poor middle-class people who work for a living.】detached表示不涉及情感或理智,通常指中立的觀查者的中性的態(tài)度:the surgeon's detached approach to pain.Detached也可以表示分心,情感上的排斥?!綡e always seems so detached about everything:you can't reach him at all】reserved表示不愿意表達(dá)個(gè)人的感情和想法
reserved強(qiáng)調(diào)舉止,而detached強(qiáng)調(diào)態(tài)度。它們兩個(gè)都能與美好的品質(zhì)聯(lián)系起來(lái),而aloof則并非如此?!綡e was a diffident ,scholarly fellow with a reserved but genial manner; She looked about her with a detached air and announced to no one in particular that she was about to be sick.】
反義詞:communicative, gregarious,neighborly,sociable,talkative.
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?翻譯自《choose the right word》
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?翻譯自《choose the right word》