arm's length

基本解释

Take their money if you must but by all means keep them at arm's length.
如果你出于企业发展需要可以接受他们的投资，但千万得跟他们保持距离。
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.
如果一个具有吸引力的计算机屏幕在使用上是配合一个白板，它必须手臂长度范围和横跨房间范围上是可视的。
They can see things that are far away,but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length.
这些远视的人们能看清远处的东西，但是他们读书却很困难，除非他们把书举到一臂远的距离处去看。

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.
这是由对怀疑论或理论持怀疑态度的人提出来的问题,也是我们要认真探讨的，但是我们还会回来继续讨论，因为对我而言，我们需要和这个问题保持一定距离。
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Executive compensation is not the result of arm's length negotiations.
行政赔偿,也不是公平磋商的结果。
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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