英语词汇“to wait one's distance”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to keep one's distance: to maintain a safe or proper distance from someone or something; spec. (in early use) to avoid or reject a familiarity inappropriate to one's social status; (later) to be reserved, reticent, or uncommunicative. Formerly also occasionally to wait one's distance.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > be discourteous [verb (intransitive)] > not be affable

to make oneself strange1390

to make (it) strangec1405

to make (it) strange1598

to wait one's distance1600

to wait one's distance1642

starch1698

prim1721

to cast snowballs1725

to put on the stranger1809

to show the cold shoulder1816

stiffen1864

to play hard to get1929

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Qiv^v If you be out, keepe your distance, and be not made a Shot-clog no more.

a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. iii. 62 Pray you keepe your distance, And grow not rude.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xvi. 325 Teaching words their distance to wait on his matter.

1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 307 If a Man makes me keep my Distance, the Comfort is, he keeps his at the same Time.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 38 It won't do, so I beg you'll keep your distance.

1831 Society 1 12 Her mother..treated him with bare civility, to make him, as she expressed it, keep his distance.

1925 E. A. Powell Beyond Utmost Purple Rim xvi. 418 It was..only the methodic shouting..of the boatmen which caused them to keep their distance.

1990 N. Gordimer My Son's Story 30 He kept his distance from me because he thought he must smell of her arm and shoulder pressed against his.

2010 Daily Tel. 15 June 7/5 (caption) A diver keeps her distance from a venomous Lion's Mane jellyfish, hundreds of which have been seen off the Cornish coast.

2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 50 I make sure I keep a careful distance from Stan, wouldn't put it past him to grass me up.

单词	to wait one's distance
释义	> as lemmas to wait one's distance b. to keep one's distance: to maintain a safe or proper distance from someone or something; spec. (in early use) to avoid or reject a familiarity inappropriate to one's social status; (later) to be reserved, reticent, or uncommunicative. Formerly also occasionally to wait one's distance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > be discourteous [verb (intransitive)] > not be affable to make oneself strange1390 to make (it) strangec1405 to make (it) strange1598 to wait one's distance1600 to wait one's distance1642 starch1698 prim1721 to cast snowballs1725 to put on the stranger1809 to show the cold shoulder1816 stiffen1864 to play hard to get1929 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Qiv^v If you be out, keepe your distance, and be not made a Shot-clog no more. a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. iii. 62 Pray you keepe your distance, And grow not rude. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xvi. 325 Teaching words their distance to wait on his matter. 1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 307 If a Man makes me keep my Distance, the Comfort is, he keeps his at the same Time. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 38 It won't do, so I beg you'll keep your distance. 1831 Society 1 12 Her mother..treated him with bare civility, to make him, as she expressed it, keep his distance. 1925 E. A. Powell Beyond Utmost Purple Rim xvi. 418 It was..only the methodic shouting..of the boatmen which caused them to keep their distance. 1990 N. Gordimer My Son's Story 30 He kept his distance from me because he thought he must smell of her arm and shoulder pressed against his. 2010 Daily Tel. 15 June 7/5 (caption) A diver keeps her distance from a venomous Lion's Mane jellyfish, hundreds of which have been seen off the Cornish coast. 2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 50 I make sure I keep a careful distance from Stan, wouldn't put it past him to grass me up. extracted from distancen. < as lemmas
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